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Genus: Pellenes Simon, 1876 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Pellenes hedjazensis Prószyński, 1993

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035281

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Described:

Distribution: Algeria, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA m - (Prószyński, 1993)
Paratype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA 2m - (Prószyński, 1993)

Taxonomic References

Pellenes hedjazensis Prószyński, 1993: 44, f. 32-36 (Dm) Original description

Pellenes hedjazensis Wesołowska & van Harten, 2010: 47, pl. 17, f. 52-56 (m, Df)

Pellenes hedjazensis Prószyński, 2017b: 46, f. 20D (m)

Pellenes hedjazensis Dekkoumi, Alioua & Meddour, 2026: 112, f. 4A-D (m)

References

Dekkoumi, B., Alioua, Y. & Meddour, S. (2026). Additions to the spider fauna (Araneae) of Algeria: first records of five species from the northern Sahara. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 12(1): 109-121. doi: 10.48311/jibs.12.01.109 -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1993). Salticidae (Araneae) of Saudi Arabia II. Fauna Saudi Arabia 13: 27-54. -- 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

Wesołowska, W. & Harten, A. van (2010). Order Araneae, family Salticidae. Arthropod fauna of the UAE 3: 27-69. -- 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
2026-02-11	Type repository inserted	Prószyński, 1993
2026-02-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Dekkoumi, Alioua & Meddour, 2026
2026-02-11	Species distribution update	Dekkoumi, Alioua & Meddour, 2026	Old value
2017-09-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b