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

Pellenes moreanus Metzner, 1999

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035298

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Described:

Distribution: North Macedonia, Greece, Turkey

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Karlsruhe (SMNK), Germany m (ARA 01766) - (Metzner, 1999)
Paratype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Karlsruhe (SMNK), Germany 8f (ARA 01767-01770) - (Metzner, 1999)
Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 1m 1f (ARTO-0027946, ex coll. Senglet) - (Metzner, 1999)

Taxonomic References

Pellenes moreana Metzner, 1999: 129, f. 95a-j (Dmf) Original description

Pellenes moreanus Coşar & Danişman, 2014: 82, f. 1A-C, 2A-C (m)

Pellenes moreanus Schäfer, 2020: 74, f. 11h, 12h, 14h (mf, partly sub moreana)

References

Coşar, İ. & Danışman, T. (2014). A new salticid spider record from Turkey (Araneae, Salticidae). Serket 14(2): 80-82. -- Show included taxa

Metzner, H. (1999). Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279. -- Show included taxa

Schäfer, M. (2020). Ein Beitrag zur Springspinnenfauna (Araneae: Salticidae) der griechischen Insel Kreta mit der Erstbeschreibung von Pellenes florii sp. nov. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59: 72-87. doi: 10.30963/aramit5910 -- 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.

Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

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
2020-04-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Schäfer, 2020
2015-03-17	Species distribution update	Komnenov, 2014	Old value
2014-12-08	New taxonomic reference entry	Coşar & Danişman, 2014
2014-12-08	Species distribution update	Coşar & Danişman, 2014	Old value