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Genus: Neaetha Simon, 1885 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Neaetha maxima Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:044529

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Described:

Distribution: Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Central African Rep., Uganda, Mozambique

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK f - (Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011)

Taxonomic References

Neaetha maxima Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011: 587, f. 124-125, 231 (Df) Original description

Neaetha maxima Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 82, f. 52A-C (f)

Neaetha maxima Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025: 860, f. 47A-C (f)

References

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

Wesołowska, W. & Henrard, A. (2025). New data on the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from the Nimba Mountains, Guinea. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 75(3): 811-912. doi: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2025.75.3.010 -- Show included taxa

Wiśniewski, K. & Wesołowska, W. (2024). Jumping spiders (Salticidae) of Uganda – revised list, new species and distributional data. European Journal of Taxonomy 952: 1-171. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2024.952.2647 -- 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
2026-01-12	Species distribution update	Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026	Old value
2025-10-01	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025
2025-10-01	Species distribution update	Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025	Old value
2024-12-30	Species distribution update	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value
2024-09-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-09-06	Species distribution update	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value
2022-10-16	Species distribution update	Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022	Old value