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Genus: Omoedus Thorell, 1881 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Omoedus piceus Simon, 1902

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035045

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Described:

Distribution: Indonesia (Moluccas), New Guinea

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

Omoedus piceus Simon, 1901a: 644, f. 762-764 (m, nomen nudum)

Omoedus piceus Simon, 1902d: 35 (Dmf) Original description

Omoedus piceus Prószyński, 1971a: 173, f. 34-42 (mf)

Omoedus cf. piceus Zhang & Maddison, 2015: 66, f. 339-342, 800 (m)

Omoedus piceus Prószyński, 2017b: 8, f. 1B.F11, 1B.F13, 39M (f)

References

Prószyński, J. (1971a). Redescriptions of type-species of genera of Salticidae (Aranei), VIII-X. Revision of the subfamily Coccorchestinae. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 28: 153-182. -- 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

Simon, E. (1902d). Description d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Salticidae (Attidae) (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 46: 24-56, 363-406. -- 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	Old value	Comment
2017-09-18	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b
2015-04-28	New taxonomic reference entry	Zhang & Maddison, 2015