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Genus: Zenodorus G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1886 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Zenodorus metallescens (L. Koch, 1879)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036889

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Described:

Distribution: Indonesia (New Guinea), Australia (Queensland),

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

Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019) mf (A0001650) of Philaeus metallescens L. Koch, 1879 -
Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) Philaeus metallescens L. Koch, 1879, (3484, 3497) -

Taxonomic References

Philaeus metallescens L. Koch, 1879a: 1080, pl. 94, f. 7-8 (Dmf) Original description

Mollika metallescens Peckham & Peckham, 1901a: 303

Mollika metallescens Simon, 1901a: 657, f. 775

Mollika metallescens Roewer, 1938: 85, f. 63-64 (mf)

Mollika metalescens Prószyński, 1984a: 82-83 (mf)

Zenodorus metallescens Davies & Żabka, 1989: 230, pl. 36 (mf)

Zenodorus metallescens Prószyński, 2017b: 76 (T from Omoedus)

References

Davies, V. T. & Żabka, M. (1989). Illustrated keys to the genera of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 27(2): 189-266. -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1879a). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 24-25]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 1045-1156, pl. 91-100. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.121660 -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1901a). Spiders of the Phidippus group of the family Attidae. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 13: 282-358. -- Show included taxa

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

Roewer, C. F. (1938). Araneae. In: Résultats scientifiques du Voyage aux indes orientales néerlandaises de la SS. AA. RR. le Prince et la Princesse Leopold de Belgique. Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 3(19): 1-94. -- 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

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
2017-09-18	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b
2017-09-18	Species transferred to new genus	Prószyński, 2017b		Species transferred from Omoedus to Zenodorus