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Genus: Padilla G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1894 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Padilla armata G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1894

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035112

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Described:

Distribution: Madagascar

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

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Taxonomic References

Padilla armata Peckham & Peckham, 1894a: 130, pl. 13, f. 1 (Dmf) Original description

Padilla armata Simon, 1901a: 472, f. 542 (m)

Padilla armata Prószyński, 1984a: 95 (m)

Padilla armata Wanless & Lubin, 1986: 1211, f. 3A, C

Padilla armata Andriamalala, 2007: 268, f. 3E-F, 4B-Ba, 10A, 12A, 18 (mf)

Padilla armata Prószyński, 2017b: 90, f. 40N, 41H (mf)

References

Andriamalala, D. (2007). Revision of the genus Padilla Peckham and Peckham, 1894 (Araneae: Salticidae)--convergent evolution of secondary sexual characters due to sexual selection and rates of molecular evolution in jumping spiders. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 58: 243-330. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1894a). Spiders of the Marptusa group. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2(2): 83-156. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1984a). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae). Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej w Siedlcach 2: 1-177. -- 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

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

Wanless, F. R. & Lubin, Y. D. (1986). Diolenius minotaurus sp. nov., a remarkable horned jumping spider from Papua New Guinea (Araneae: Salticidae). Journal of Natural History 20(5): 1211-1220. doi: 10.1080/00222938600770801 -- 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
2017-09-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b