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Genus: Myrmarachne MacLeay, 1839 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Myrmarachne solitaria G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034904

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Described:

Distribution: Mozambique, South Africa, Lesotho

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

Type Repository Provide information

Lectotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m - (Wanless, 1978a)
Paralectotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 1f (subsequently after the lectotype designation of the m by Wanless, 1978a) - (Peckham & Peckham, 1903)

Taxonomic References

Myrmarachne solitaria Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 250, pl. 29, f. 5 (Dmf) Original description

Myrmarachne solitaria Wanless, 1978a: 75, f. 46A-L (mf)

Myrmarachne solitaria Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009: 65, f. 124-126 (f)

Myrmarachne solitaria Wesołowska & Haddad, 2014: 253, f. 82-86 (mf)

Myrmarachne solitaria Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 46, f. 32A-E, 33A-E (mf)

References

Haddad, C. R., Wiśniewski, K. & Wesołowska, W. (2024). The jumping spiders of Mozambique (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 5560(1): 1-92. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5560.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1903). New species of the family Attidae from South Africa, with notes on the distribution of the genera found in the Ethiopian region. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 14(1): 173-278, pl. 19-29. -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. (1978a). A revision of the spider genera Belippo and Myrmarachne (Araneae: Salticidae) in the Ethiopian region. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 33(1): 1-139. doi: 10.5962/p.28732 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Haddad, C. R. (2009). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Ndumo Game Reserve, Maputaland, South Africa. African Invertebrates 50(1): 13-103. doi: 10.5733/afin.050.0102 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Haddad, C. R. (2014). An overview of the jumping spiders of Lesotho (Araneae: Salticidae), with descriptions of six new species. African Invertebrates 55(2): 229-268. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7680935 -- 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
2024-12-30	New taxonomic reference entry	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-12-30	Species distribution update	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value
2014-09-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska & Haddad, 2014
2014-09-29	Species distribution update	Wesołowska & Haddad, 2014	Old value