Phidippus cardinalis (Hentz, 1845)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035440

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Described:

Distribution: USA, Mexico, possibly Panama


Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Zoological Museum of Uppsala University (ZMUU/UUZM), Uppsala, Sweden f (1782) of Phidippus oaklandensis, see also Wallace, 1950 - (Wallin, 2001)
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) Plexippus bivittatus C. L. Koch, 1846, (1742) -
Taxonomic References
Attus cardinalis Hentz, 1845: 200, pl. 17, f. 9 (Dm) Original description
Attus rufus Hentz, 1846: 120 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061651]
Plexippus bivittatus C. L. Koch, 1846: vol. 13: 120, pl. 452, f. 1181 (Dj) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061639]
Attus m'cookii Peckham & Peckham, 1883: 16, pl. 2, f. 12 (Df; patronym for McCook) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035472]
Attus cardinalis Peckham & Peckham, 1883: 31, pl. 3, f. 24 (m, Df)
Phidippus ruber Keyserling, 1885: 493, pl. 13, f. 4 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061687]
Phidippus cardinalis Peckham & Peckham, 1888: 15, pl. 2, f. 4 (m)
Phidippus mccooki Peckham & Peckham, 1888: 17, pl. 2, f. 9 (f)
Phidippus rufus Marx, 1890a: 569 (S of Plexippus bivittatus and Phidippus ruber)
Phidippus ruber Emerton, 1891: 226, pl. 16, f. 4 (mf)
Phidippus aureopilosus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 283, pl. 26, f. 11 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035432]
Dendryphantes ruber Simon, 1901a: 625
Dendryphantes cardinalis Simon, 1901a: 625
Phidippus oaklandensis Tullgren, 1901a: 27, pl. 1, f. 16 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061688]
Phidippus cardinalis Banks, 1901c: 187 (S of Phidippus paludatus; rejected by Edwards, 2004: 79, see Phidippus whitmani)
Phidippus cardinalis Peckham & Peckham, 1909: 393, pl. 29, f. 5 (mf)
Phidippus mccooki Peckham & Peckham, 1909: 396, pl. 29, f. 4 (mf)
Dendryphantes (Phidippus) aureopilosus Petrunkevitch, 1911: 624
Dendryphantes (Phidippus) mccooki Petrunkevitch, 1911: 635
Dendryphantes (Phidippus) cardinalis Petrunkevitch, 1911: 625 (S of Phidippus oaklandensis)
Phidippus cardinalis Banks, 1913: 187 (S of Phiale modesta; rejected by Edwards, 2004: 79, see Phidippus whitmani)
Phidippus mccooki Kaston, 1948: 486, f. 1797-1799, 1821 (mf)
Phidippus cardinalis Wallace, 1950: 83, pl. 2, f. 12 (f)
Plexippus bivittatus Roewer, 1955c: 1634 (nicht zu deuten = nomen dubium)
Phidippus cardinalis Prószyński, 1971e: 454 (T from Dendryphantes)
Phidippus aureopilosus Prószyński, 1971e: 454 (T from Dendryphantes)
Phidippus maccocki Prószyński, 1971e: 455 (lapsus, T from Dendryphantes)
Phidippus mccooki Prószyński, 1976: 149, f. 58, 85 (mf)
Phidippus cardinalis Breene et al., 1993: 70, f. 55A-C (mf)
Phidippus cardinalis Edwards, 2004: 64, f. C47-48, 197-202 (mf, S of Phidippus aureopilosus, P. mccooki, Plexippus bivittatus [confirmed] and Salticus rufus)
References

Banks, N. (1901c). Notes on some spiders of Walckenaer, Koch and others. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 9: 182-189. -- Show included taxa

Banks, N. (1913). Notes on the types of some American spiders in European collections. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 65: 177-188. -- Show included taxa

Breene, R. G., Dean, D. A., Nyffeler, M. & Edwards, G. B. (1993). Biology, Predation Ecology, and Significance of Spiders in Texas Cotton Ecosystems with a Key to Species. Texas Agriculture Experiment Station College Station, 115 pp. -- Show included taxa

Edwards, G. B. (2004). Revision of the jumping spiders of the genus Phidippus (Araneae: Salticidae). Occasional Papers of the Florida State Collection of Arthropods 11: 1-156. -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1891). New England spiders of the family Attidae. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 8: 220-252, pl. 16-21. -- Show included taxa

Hentz, N. M. (1845). Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston Journal of Natural History 5(2): 189-202, pl. 16-17. -- Show included taxa

Hentz, N. M. (1846). Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston Journal of Natural History 5(3): 352-370, pl. 21-22. -- Show included taxa

Kaston, B. J. (1948). Spiders of Connecticut. Bulletin of the Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey 70: 1-874. -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1885). Neue Spinnen aus Amerika. VI. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 34: 489-534, pl. 13. -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1846). Die Arachniden. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, Dreizehnter Band, pp. 1-234, pl. 433-468 (f. 1078-1271); Vierzehnter Band, pp. 1-88, pl. 467-480 (f. 1272-1342). doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.43744 [[for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b]] -- Show included taxa

Marx, G. (1890a). Catalogue of the described Araneae of temperate North America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 12: 497-594. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1883). Descriptions of new or little known spiders of the family Attidae from various parts of the United States of North America. Milwaukee, 35 pp., 3 pls. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.136491 -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1888). Attidae of North America. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 7: 1-104, pl. 1-6. -- 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

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1901a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2, pp. 193-312, pl. 15-30. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1971e). Catalogue of Salticidae (Aranei) specimens kept in major collections of the world. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 28: 367-519. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1976). Studium systematyczno-zoogeograflczne nad rodziną Salticidae (Aranei) Regionów Palearktycznego i Nearktycznego. Wyższa Szkola Pedagogiczna Siedlcach 6: 1-260. [[pdf is made from a reprint from 1979]] -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1955c). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1751 pp. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1901a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 381-668. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[last page with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Tullgren, A. (1901a). On the spiders collected in Florida by Dr. Einar Lönnberg 1892–93. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 27(IV, 1): 1-29, 1 pl. -- Show included taxa

Wallace, H. K. (1950). On Tullgren's Florida Spiders. Florida Entomologist 33: 71-83. -- 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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