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

Zenodorus orbiculatus (Keyserling, 1881)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036893

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Described:

Distribution: Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)

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) f (A0001711) -

Taxonomic References

Hasarius orbiculatus Keyserling, 1881a: 1285, pl. 110, f. 1-2 (Dmf) Original description

Pystira orbiculata Simon, 1901a: 656

Pystira orbiculata Prószyński, 1984a: 117 (f)

Zenodorus orbiculatus Davies & Żabka, 1989: 230, pl. 37 (Tmf from Pystira)

Omoedus orbiculatus Zhang & Maddison, 2015: 66, f. 350-355 (mf)

Zenodorus orbiculatus 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

Keyserling, E. (1881a). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 28]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 1272-1324, pl. 109-112. doi: bhl.title.121660 -- 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

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

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 Zenodorus
2015-04-28	New taxonomic reference entry	Zhang & Maddison, 2015