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

Peplometus oyo (Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:044530

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Described:

Distribution: Nigeria

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

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Taxonomic References

Pachyballus oyo Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011: 588, f. 126-135, 232-234 (Dmf) Original description

Pachyballus oyo Prószyński, 2017b: 90, f. 40M (mf)

Peplometus oyo Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020: 93, f. 134 (m, T from Pachyballus)

References

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

Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2011). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from southern Nigeria. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 61(3): 553-619. doi: 10.3161/000345411X603409 -- 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	Comment
2020-07-01	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020
2020-07-01	Species transferred to new genus	Wesołowska, Azarkina & Wiśniewski, 2020	Species transferred from Pachyballus to Peplometus
2017-09-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b