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

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

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035484

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Described:

Distribution: USA

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

Type Repository Provide information

Lectotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA f - (Edwards, 2004)
Paralectotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 1f - (Edwards, 2004)

Taxonomic References

Phidippus pruinosus Peckham & Peckham, 1909: 433, pl. 35, f. 2 (Df) Original description

Dendryphantes pruinosus Petrunkevitch, 1911: 640

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

Phidippus pruinosus Edwards, 2004: 36, f. C8, 59-64 (f, Dm)

References

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

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]

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