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

Myrmarachne uvira Wanless, 1978

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034917

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Described:

Distribution: Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, DR Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium m (148551) - (Wanless, 1978a)
Paratype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium 1m - (Wanless, 1978a)
Paratype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 28m 18f - (Wanless, 1978a)

Taxonomic References

Myrmarachne uvira Wanless, 1978a: 86, f. 54A-M (Dmf) Original description

Myrmarachne uvira Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000: 73, f. 192-195 (f)

Myrmarachne uvira Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008: 32, f. 125-129 (mf)

Myrmarachne uvira Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011: 585, f. 121-123 (m)

References

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. & Russell-Smith, A. (2000). Jumping spiders from Mkomazi Game Reserve in Tanzania (Araneae Salticidae). Tropical Zoology 13(1): 11-127. doi: 10.1080/03946975.2000.10531126 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Tomasiewicz, B. (2008). New species and records of Ethiopian jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 4: 3-59. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2011). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from southern Nigeria. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 61(3): 553-619. doi: 10.3161/000345411X603409 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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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	Comment
2024-09-06	Species distribution update	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value