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Genus: Opisthoncus L. Koch, 1880 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Opisthoncus bellus (Karsch, 1878)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035057

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Described:

Distribution: Australia (New South Wales)

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

Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) Eris bella Karsch, 1878, (1789) -

Taxonomic References

Eris bella Karsch, 1878d: 22 (Dm) Original description

Bianor bella Rainbow, 1911: 294

Opisthoncus bellus Żabka, 1991c: 44 (Tm from Bianor)

Opisthoncus bellus Gardzińska & Żabka, 2013: 410, f. 7A-J (m)

References

Gardzińska, J. & Żabka, M. (2013). Redescription of the genus Opisthoncus L. Koch, 1880 (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 3717: 401-447. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3717.4.1 -- Show included taxa

Karsch, F. (1878d). Diagnoses Attoidarum aliquot novarum Novae Hollandiae collectionis Musei Zoologici Berolinensis. Mittheilungen des Münchener Entomologischen Vereins 2: 22-32. -- Show included taxa

Rainbow, W. J. (1911). A census of Australian Araneidae. Records of the Australian Museum 9(2): 107-319. doi: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.9.1911.928 -- Show included taxa

Żabka, M. (1991c). Studium taksonomiczno-zoogeograficzne nad Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) Australii. Wyższa Szkola Rolniczo-Pedagogiczna w Siedlcach Rozprawa Naukowa 32: 1-110. -- 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]

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