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

Pachyballus gambeyi (Simon, 1880)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035105

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Described:

Distribution: New Caledonia

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m (3646) - (Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020)

Taxonomic References

Homalattus gambeyi Simon, 1880i: 166 (Dm) Original description

Pachyballus gambeyi Simon, 1901a: 485

Pachyballus gambeyi Prószyński, 1987: 73 (m)

Pachyballus gambeyi Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020: 64 (species inquirenda, belongs probably to another genus)

References

Prószyński, J. (1987). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae 2. Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoly Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej Siedlcach, 172 pp. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1880i). Matériaux pour servir à une faun arachnologique de la Nouvelle Calédonie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 23(C.R.): 164-175. -- 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

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	Comment
2020-07-01	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020