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

Zenodorus pusillus (Strand, 1913)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036896

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Described:

Distribution: Samoa, Tahiti

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) Mollika pusilla Strand, 1913, 1 f, 1 m (subadult) (2357-141) -

Taxonomic References

Mollica pusilla Strand, 1913d: 123 (Df) Original description

Mollica pusilla Strand, 1915d: 263, pl. 14, f. 29, pl. 19, f. 103 (f, Dm)

Mollicia pusilla Marples, 1964: 406, f. 6 (m)

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

References

Marples, B. J. (1964). Spiders from some Pacific islands, part V. Pacific Science 18: 399-410. -- 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

Strand, E. (1913d). Neue indoaustralische und polynesische Spinnen des Senckenbergischen Museums. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 79(A6): 113-123. -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1915d). Indoaustralische, papuanische und polynesische Spinnen des Senckenbergischen Museums, gesammelt von Dr E. Wolf, Dr J. Elbert u. a. In: Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Hanseatischen Südsee-Expedition 1909. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 36(2): 179-274, pl. 13-19. -- 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