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Genus: Nycerella Galiano, 1982 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Nycerella aprica (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1896)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035016

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Described:

Distribution: Guyana, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina

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

Type Repository Provide information

Lectotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA f - (Galiano, 1982b)
Paralectotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m - (Galiano, 1982b)
Holotype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy m of Phiale pseudaprica - (Galiano, 1982b)
Syntype: Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel (NMB), Switzerland 2f 1j (ARAN-01205a; f holotype per Galiano, 1982b, but in the collection are three specimens) of Ilargus albomaculatus - (Mello-Leitão, 1939e)
Holotype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy m (590) of Phiale bristowei - (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)

Taxonomic References

Cyrene aprica Peckham & Peckham, 1896: 66, pl. 6, f. 1 (Dmf) Original description

Cyrene aprica F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 239, pl. 20, f. 12-13 (mf)

Ilargus albomaculatus Mello-Leitão, 1939e: 86, f. 76 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063711]

Phiale pseudaprica Caporiacco, 1947a: 31 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063716]

Phiale bristowei Caporiacco, 1948a: 709, f. 135 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063712]

Nycerella aprica Galiano, 1982b: 56, f. 1-3, 27-28, 43-44 (mf, T from Phiale, S of Ilargus albomaculatus, Phiale bristowei and P. pseudaprica)

Nycerella aprica Ruiz, Paz & Bustamante, 2025: 3, f. 1-8 (mf)

References

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

Caporiacco, L. di (1948a). Arachnida of British Guiana collected in 1931 and 1936 by Professors Beccari and Romiti. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 118(3): 607-747. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1948.tb00402.x -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1982b). Revision del genero Nycerella (Araneae, Salticidae). Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (Secc. C) 41: 53-63. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1939e). Araignées américaines du Musee d'histoire naturelle de Bâle. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 46(2): 43-93. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.117928 -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1896). Spiders of the family Attidae from Central America and Mexico. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 3: 1-101, pl. 1-7. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1901a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2, pp. 193-312, pl. 15-30. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

Ruiz, G. R. S., Paz, A. V. & Bustamante, A. A. (2025). The jumping spider genus Nycerella Galiano, 1982 in Brazil, with description of the female of Nycerella melanopygia Galiano, 1982 (Araneae: Salticidae: Freyina). Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi Ciências Naturais 20(1, e20251008): 1-13. doi: 10.46357/bcnaturais.v20i1.1008 -- 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
2025-05-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Ruiz, Paz & Bustamante, 2025