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Genus: Pachyballus Simon, 1900 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Pachyballus castaneus Simon, 1900

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035101

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Described:

Distribution: Central African Rep., Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique?

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

Type Repository Provide information

Neotype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa f (2008/4147) - (Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020)

Taxonomic References

Pachyballus castaneus Simon, 1900b: 400 (Df) Original description

Pachyballus castaneus Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020: 55, f. 6, 18-28, 129 (Dm, f)

Pachyballus castaneus van der Walt et al., 2022: 7, f. 1-10, 13-14 (mf)

References

Simon, E. (1900b). Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 44: 381-407. -- Show included taxa

Walt, V. van der, Blake, B., Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. & Webb, P. (2022). Notes on the red beetle jumping spider Pachyballus castaneus (Araneae: Salticidae). SANSA Newsletter 41: 7-9. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.6482732 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W., Azarkina, G. N. & Wiśniewski, K. (2020). A revision of Pachyballus Simon, 1900 and Peplometus Simon, 1900 (Araneae, Salticidae, Ballini) with descriptions of new species. ZooKeys 944: 47-98. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.944.49921 -- 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
2026-01-12	Species distribution update	Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026	Old value
2024-12-30	Species distribution update	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value
2022-04-26	New taxonomic reference entry	van der Walt et al., 2022
2022-04-26	Species distribution update	Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020	Old value
2020-07-01	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020
2020-07-01	First description of male	Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020	Old value