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Genus: Pystira Simon, 1901 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Pystira ephippigera (Simon, 1885)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035867

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Described:

Distribution: Indonesia (Sumatra)

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

Type Repository Provide information

It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France -

Taxonomic References

Hadrosoma ephippigerum Simon, 1885a: 36 (Df) Original description

Bootes ephippiger Thorell, 1892a: 375

Pystira ephippigera Simon, 1901a: 656, f. 772

Pystira ephippigera Prószyński, 1984a: 117 (f, Dm)

Omoedus ephippigerus Zhang & Maddison, 2012b: 21

Omoedus ephippigerus Zhang & Maddison, 2015: 66, f. 343-349, 801-802 (mf)

Pystira ephippigera Prószyński, 2017b: 76, f. 1B.B, 38H, 39O (mf, T from Omoedus)

References

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. (2017b). Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 12: 1-133. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.12.1 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1885a). Arachnides recueillis par M. Weyers à Sumatra. Premier envoi. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 29(C.R.): 30-39. -- 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

Thorell, T. (1892a). Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. IV, 2. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 31: 1-490. -- Show included taxa

Zhang, J. X. & Maddison, W. P. (2012b). New euophryine jumping spiders from Papua New Guinea (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae). Zootaxa 3491: 1-74. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3491.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Zhang, J. X. & Maddison, W. P. (2015). Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny. Zootaxa 3938(1): 1-147. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1 -- 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
2017-09-18	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b
2017-09-18	Species transferred to new genus	Prószyński, 2017b	Species transferred from Omoedus to Pystira
2015-04-28	New taxonomic reference entry	Zhang & Maddison, 2015