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Genus: Paradamoetas G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1885 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Paradamoetas carus (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035166

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Described:

Distribution: Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras

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

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Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m - (Cutler, 1981b)

Taxonomic References

Keyserlingella cara Peckham & Peckham, 1892: 71, pl. 5, f. 8 (Dm) Original description

Paradamoetas formicina Peckham & Peckham, 1892: 74, pl. 6, f. 2d (m; misidentified per Cutler, 1981b: 211)

Keyserlingella cara F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900: 177, pl. 12, f. 9 (m)

Paradamoetas formicina F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900: 177, pl. 12, f. 5 (m; misidentified per Cutler, 1981b: 211)

Paradamoetas formicina Peckham & Peckham, 1909: 375, pl. 49, f. 2d (m; misidentified per Cutler, 1981b: 211)

Paradamoetas cara Cutler, 1981b: 211, f. 2, 9, 13-14, 17-20, 25 (mf, removed from S of Paradamoetas formicinus [rejecting Galiano, 1971a: 575])

Paradamoetas cara Cutler, 1982a: 219, f. 2b (m)

References

Cutler, B. (1981b). A revision of the spider genus Paradamoetas (Araneae, Salticidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 170: 207-215. -- Show included taxa

Cutler, B. (1982a). Description of a new species of Paradamoetas (Araneae: Salticidae), with a revised key to the genus. Great Lakes Entomologist 15: 219-222. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1892). Ant-like spiders of the family Attidae. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2(1): 1-84, pl. 1-7. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1909). Revision of the Attidae of North America. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 16(1, 5): 355-646, pl. 29-51. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1900). Arachnida. Araneidea and Opiliones. Vol. II. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana. Taylor and Francis, London, pp. 89-192, pl. 6-15. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.730 [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- 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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