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Genus: Myrmage Prószyński, 2016 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Myrmage imbellis (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034801

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Described:

Distribution: Sri Lanka

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | Salticidae Database Prószyński (2025) | GBIF

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Taxonomic References

Salticus imbellis Peckham & Peckham, 1892: 36, pl. 2, f. 10 (Dmf) Original description

Myrmarachne imbellis Simon, 1901a: 498

Myrmarachne imbellis Benjamin, 2015b: 2623, f. 8A-F, 9A-D, 10A-C, 11A-C, 12A-F (mf)

Myrmage imbellis Prószyński, 2016: 6 (T from Myrmarachne)

References

Benjamin, S. P. (2015b). Model mimics: antlike jumping spiders of the genus Myrmarachne from Sri Lanka. Journal of Natural History 49(43-44): 2609-2666. doi: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1034209 -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1892). Ant-like spiders of the family Attidae. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2(1): 1-84, pl. 1-7. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2016). Delimitation and description of 19 new genera, a subgenus and a species of Salticidae (Araneae) of the world. Ecologica Montenegrina 7: 4-32. doi: 10.37828/em.2016.7.1 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1901a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 381-668. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[last page with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2025). Salticidae (Araneae) Genera of the World "a management tool for developing a new system of Salticidae" - a scrollable e-Textbook. Version December 20th, 2025, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2016-11-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2016
2016-11-09	Species transferred to new genus	Prószyński, 2016	Species transferred from Myrmarachne to Myrmage
2015-10-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Benjamin, 2015b