World Spider Catalog

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

Myrmarachne spissa (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034905

Permalink: https://wsc.nmbe.ch/lsid/urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034905

Described:

Distribution: India, Sri Lanka

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

Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 4m (23159) - (Tripathi et al., 2023a)

Taxonomic References

Salticus spissus Peckham & Peckham, 1892: 37, pl. 2, f. 8 (Dm) Original description

Myrmarachne spissa Simon, 1901a: 500

Myrmarachne spissa Benjamin, 2015b: 2652, f. 32A-J, 33A-D, 34A-D, 35A-F, 36A-C, 37A-F (m, Df)

Myrmarachne spissa Tripathi et al., 2023a: 2, f. 1-15 (mf)

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

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

Tripathi, R., Jose, A., Nafin, K. S., Babu, N. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2023a). The first description of the female of Myrmarachne uniseriata Narayan, 1915 and the first report of Myrmarachne spissa (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892) from India. Peckhamia 289.1: 1-10. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7542028 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

* Disclaimer
As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

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
2023-01-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Tripathi et al., 2023a
2023-01-16	Species distribution update	Tripathi et al., 2023a	Old value
2015-10-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Benjamin, 2015b
2015-10-29	First description of female	Benjamin, 2015b	Old value