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Genus: Penionomus Simon, 1903 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Penionomus longipalpis (Simon, 1889)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035327

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Described:

Distribution: New Caledonia

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

Type Repository Provide information

It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France -

Taxonomic References

Evophrys longipalpis Simon, 1889c: 237 (Dm) Original description

Penionomus longipalpis Simon, 1903a: 734, f. 862 (m)

Euophrys longipalpis Dyal, 1935: 237 (f)

Penionomus dyali Roewer, 1951: 451 (superfluous and invalid replacement name for Dyal's record; Dyal refers to Simon's species; nevertheless it is unlikely, that the species occurs in Pakistan) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035326]

Penionomus longipalpis Żabka, 1988: 463, f. 114-119 (m, Df)

Penionomus longipalpis Prószyński, 2017b: 33, f. 15A (mf)

References

Dyal, S. (1935). Fauna of Lahore. 4.–Spiders of Lahore. Bulletin of the Department of Zoology of the Panjab University 1: 119-252, pl. 11-17. -- 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

Roewer, C. F. (1951). Neue Namen einiger Araneen-Arten. Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins zu Bremen 32: 437-456. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1889c). Etudes arachnologiques. 21e Mémoire. XXXII. Descriptions d'espèces et de genres nouveaux de Nouvelle Calédonie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 8: 237-247. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1903a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 669-1080. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Żabka, M. (1988). Salticidae (Araneae) of Oriental, Australian and Pacific regions, III. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 41(14): 421-479. -- 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