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Genus: Natta Karsch, 1879 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Natta chionogaster (Simon, 1901)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034931

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Described:

Distribution: Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Tropical Africa, Namibia, South Africa, Madagascar

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

Type Repository Provide information

Paralectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 1m 16f [2m 7f 2j per Wesołowska 1993a] - (Prószyński, 1985)
Lectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m - (Prószyński, 1985)

Taxonomic References

Cyllobelus chionogaster Simon, 1901a: 541, 549, f. 665 (m)

Cyllobelus chionogaster Simon, 1901c: 151 (Dmf; specific epithet is a noun) Original description

Cyllobelus australis Peckham & Peckham, 1902: 334 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056082]

Cyllobelus australis Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 194, pl. 21, f. 2 (f)

Cyllobelus chionogaster Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 195, pl. 21, f. 1 (m)

Natta chionogastra Prószyński, 1984a: 87-88 (mf, T from Cyllobelus)

Natta chionogastra Prószyński, 1985: 80, f. 39-41, 45, 47 (mf)

Natta chionogastra Wesołowska, 1993a: 18, f. 1-16 (mf, S of Cyllobelus australis)

References

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1902). Some new genera and species of Attidae from South Africa. Psyche 9(312): 330-335. doi: 10.1155/1902/13502 -- 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

Prószyński, J. (1984a). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae). Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej w Siedlcach 2: 1-177. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1985). On Siler, Silerella, Cyllobelus and Natta (Araneae, Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 39: 69-85. -- 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

Simon, E. (1901c). Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 45: 141-161. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (1993a). Notes on the genus Natta Karsch, 1879 (Araneae, Salticidae). Genus 4(1): 17-32. -- 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
2025-06-29	Species distribution update	Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025	Old value
2024-09-06	Species updated	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value	Species epithet corrected
2022-10-16	Species distribution update	Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022	Old value