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

Phidippus nikites Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035476

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Described:

Distribution: USA, Mexico

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

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Taxonomic References

Phidippus nikites Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935b: 41, pl. 11, f. 86-88 (Dmf) Original description

Phidippus apacheanus Gardner, 1965: 133, f. 4-6 (mf; misidentified per Edwards, 2004: 88)

Phidippus nikites Prószyński, 1971e: 456 (T from Dendryphantes)

Phidippus nikites Prószyński, 1976: 149, f. 54, 87 (mf)

Phidippus nikites Edwards, 2004: 88, f. 305-308 (mf)

Phidippus nikites Hernández Salgado et al., 2022: 6, f. S6A-H (mf)

References

Chamberlin, R. V. & Ivie, W. (1935b). Miscellaneous new American spiders. Bulletin of the University of Utah 26(4): 1-79. -- 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

Gardner, B. T. (1965). Observations on three species of Phidippus jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Psyche, Cambridge 72(2): 133-147. doi: 10.1155/1965/91416 -- Show included taxa

Hernández Salgado, L. C., Guerrero Fuentes, D. R., Garduño Villaseñor, L. A., Castañeda Betancur, L., López Reyes, E. & Ceccarelli, F. S. (2022). New distributional records of Phidippus (Araneae: Salticidae) for Baja California and Mexico: an integrative approach. Diversity 14(159): 1-13, Suppl. p. 1-19. doi: 10.3390/d14030159 -- 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

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
2022-03-01	New taxonomic reference entry	Hernández Salgado et al., 2022