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Genus: Hypaeus Simon, 1900 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Hypaeus petrusewiczi (Caporiacco, 1947)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042106

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Described:

Distribution: Ecuador, Guyana, Brazil

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

Type Repository Provide information

Lectotype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy f (567) - (Borges & Ruiz, 2026)
Paralectotype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy 1f 1j (566-567) - (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)

Taxonomic References

Agelista petrusewiczi Caporiacco, 1947a: 31 (Df) Original description

Agelista petrusewiczi Galiano, 1963d: 32 (species inquirenda)

Noegus petrusewiczi Ruiz & Brescovit, 2008c: 489, f. 7-8 (f, T from Agelista)

Hypaeus petrusewiczi Borges & Ruiz, 2026: 23, f. 1-4, 74-80, 83-84, 93-94, 125-126, 137-138, 145, 151 (Dm, f, T from Noegus)

References

Borges, J. P. & Ruiz, G. R. S. (2026). On species groups in the jumping spider genus Hypaeus Simon, 1900 (Araneae: Salticidae: Amycini), with a revision of the H. porcatus species group. Zootaxa 5814(1): 1-42. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5814.1.1 [[Zoobank: 81EA025D-4CB5-46CE-AA94-B7FB3309B70E]] -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1947a). Diagnosi preliminari de specie nuove di aracnidi della Guiana Brittanica raccolte dai professori Beccari e Romiti. Monitore Zoologico Italiano 56: 20-34. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1963d). Revisión del género Agelista Simon, 1900, con nota sobre Titanattus notabilis (Mello-Leitão) comb. n. (Araneae, Salticidae). Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (C) 24: 29-34. -- Show included taxa

Ruiz, G. R. S. & Brescovit, A. D. (2008c). Redescription and resolution of some Neotropical species of jumping spiders described by Caporiacco and description of a new species (Araneae: Salticidae). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 25(3): 487-494. doi: 10.1590/S0101-81752008000300013 -- 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
2026-05-20	First description of male	Borges & Ruiz, 2026
2026-05-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Borges & Ruiz, 2026
2026-05-20	Species transferred to new genus	Borges & Ruiz, 2026		Species transferred from Noegus Simon, 1900 to Hypaeus Simon, 1900
2026-05-20	Species distribution update	Borges & Ruiz, 2026	Old value