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

Myrmapana parallela (Fabricius, 1798)

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Described:

Distribution: Nicaragua, Panama

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Aranea parallela Fabricius, 1798 - type material probably lost or destroyed - (Zimsen, 1964)

Taxonomic References

Aranea parallela Fabricius, 1798: 292 (D) Original description

Attus parallelus Walckenaer, 1837: 474 (Dm)

Myrmarachne parallela Simon, 1901a: 503

Myrmarachne parallela Galiano, 1969b: 128, f. 13-16, 33, 37, 41, 43-45, 64, 67 (m, Df)

Myrmarachne parallela Edwards & Benjamin, 2009: 16, f. 7 (mf)

Myrmapana parallela Prószyński, 2016: 9 (T from Myrmarachne)

References

Edwards, G. B. & Benjamin, S. P. (2009). A first look at the phylogeny of the Myrmarachninae, with rediscovery and redescription of the type species of Myrmarachne (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 2309: 1-29. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.2309.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Fabricius, J. C. (1798). Supplementum entomologiae systematicae. Christian Gottlieb Proft, Hafniae [= Copenhagen], 572 pp. (Araneae, pp. 291-294). doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.122153 -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1969b). Salticidae (Araneae) formiciformes. VII. El género Myrmarachne Mac Leay, 1839, en America. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (Ent.) 3: 107-148. -- 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

Walckenaer, C. A. (1837). Histoire naturelle des insectes. Aptères. Tome premier. Roret, Paris, 682 pp., pl. 1-15. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.61095 [[plates in second pdf]] -- 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	Old value	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 Myrmapana