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

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

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035022

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Described:

Distribution: Guatemala, Panama

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

Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 4m (792) - (Galiano, 1982b)
Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK m of Cyrene curvispina - (Galiano, 1982b)

Taxonomic References

Heraclea sanguinea Peckham & Peckham, 1896: 78 (Dm) Original description

Heraclea sanguinea paradoxa Peckham & Peckham, 1896: 79 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035023]

Cyrene emarginata F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 235, pl. 19, f. 13 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033474]

Cyrene sanguinea F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 230

Cyrene curvispina F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 231, pl. 19, f. 3 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063713]

Freya emarginata Simon, 1903a: 730

Freya sanguinea Simon, 1903a: 730

Freya curvispina Simon, 1903a: 730

Nycerella sanguinea Galiano, 1982b: 60, f. 13-14 (m, T from Freya, S of Freya curvispina)

Nycerella sanguinea Edwards, 2015: 47, f. 20A-N, 28F (mf, S of Freya emarginata and Nycerella sanguinea paradoxa)

References

Edwards, G. B. (2015). Freyinae, a major new subfamily of Neotropical jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4036(1): 1-87. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4036.1.1 -- 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

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

Simon, E. (1903a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 669-1080. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- 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	Comment
2015-11-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Edwards, 2015
2015-11-13	Species synonymy	Edwards, 2015	Nycerella sanguinea paradoxa synonymized with Nycerella sanguinea
2015-11-13	Species synonymy	Edwards, 2015	Nycerella emarginata synonymized with Nycerella sanguinea