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

Pellenes inexcultus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035284

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Described:

Distribution: St. Helena

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

Type Repository Provide information

Lectotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK m (2313) - (Sherwood et al., 2024e)
Paralectotype: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH) = Hope Entomological Collections Oxford (HECO), Oxford, UK 1m 2f 3j (2313.29) - (Sherwood et al., 2024e)

Taxonomic References

Salticus inexcultus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873e: 225 (Dmf) Original description

Pellenes inexcultus Clark & Benoit, 1977: 98, f. 41a-d (Tmf from Salticus)

Pellenes inexcultus Sherwood et al., 2024e: 1262, f. 48A-F, 49A-D, 50 (mf)

References

Clark, D. J. & Benoit, P. L. G. (1977). Fam. Salticidae. In: La faune terrestre de l'île de Sainte-Hélène IV. Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques (Zool.-Ser. 8°) 220: 87-103. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1873e). On the spiders of St Helena. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 41(2): 210-227, pl. 24. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1873.tb00504.x -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D., Henrard, A., Jocqué, R., Fowler, L., Marusik, Y. M., Maddison, W., Harvey, M. S., Hormiga, G., Rheims, C. A., Piacentini, L. N., Peters, M., Stevens, N., Joshua, D., Scipio-O’Dean, C. J., Ellick, G., Wilkins, V., Ashmole, M. & Ashmole, P. (2024e). Annotated checklist of the spiders of Saint Helena, with new records, descriptions of unknown sexes, new and restored genera, and two new species (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Arachnology 19(9): 1218-1291. doi: 10.13156/arac.2024.19.9.1218 -- 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
2024-11-04	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood et al., 2024e