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Genus: Phidippus C. L. Koch, 1846 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Phidippus carolinensis G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1909

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035442

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Described:

Distribution: USA, Mexico

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m - (Edwards, 2004)
Lectotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA f of Phidippus obscurus - (Edwards, 2004)
Paralectotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 7f of Phidippus obscurus - (Edwards, 2004)

Taxonomic References

Phidippus obscurus Peckham & Peckham, 1901a: 294, pl. 24, f. 5 (mf; misidentified per Peckham & Peckham, 1909: 422)

Phidippus carolinensis Peckham & Peckham, 1909: 422, pl. 32, f. 6 (Dmf) Original description

Dendryphantes carolinensis Petrunkevitch, 1911: 626

Phidippus rauterbergi Bryant, 1942c: 703, f. 10, 14 (m; misidentified per Edwards, 2004: 32)

Phidippus carolinensis Prószyński, 1971e: 454 (T from Dendryphantes)

Phidippus carolinensis Edwards, 2004: 32, f. C5-6, 36-42 (mf)

Phidippus carolinensis Edwards, 2015: 79, f. 39E-F (m)

References

Bryant, E. B. (1942c). Descriptions of certain North American Phidippus. American Midland Naturalist 28: 693-707. -- 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

Edwards, G. B. (2015). Freyinae, a major new subfamily of Neotropical jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4036(1): 1-87. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4036.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1901a). Spiders of the Phidippus group of the family Attidae. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 13: 282-358. -- 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

Prószyński, J. (1971e). Catalogue of Salticidae (Aranei) specimens kept in major collections of the world. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 28: 367-519. -- 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
2015-11-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Edwards, 2015