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

Phidippus toro Edwards, 1978

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035496

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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, 1978)
Paratype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 1f - (Edwards, 1978)
Paratype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA 1m 5f jj - (Edwards, 1978)
Paratype: Southwestern Research Station of the American Museum of Natural History (SWRS), Portal, Arizona, USA 1f - (Edwards, 1978)
Paratype: David B. Richman Private Collection, USA 1f - (Edwards, 1978)

Taxonomic References

Phidippus toro Edwards, 1978: 80, f. 5-10 (Dmf) Original description

Phidippus toro Edwards, 2004: 38, front cover, f. 71-75, 348 (mf)

Phidippus toro Edwards, 2020: 10, f. 25, 32, 35, 37 (m habitus)

References

Edwards, G. B. (1978). Two new southern Phidippus (Araneae: Salticidae). Florida Entomologist 61: 77-82. -- 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. (2020). Description of Phidippus pacosauritus sp. nov. (Salticidae: Salticinae: Dendryphantini: Dendryphantina), with a reanalysis of related species in the mystaceus group. Peckhamia 221.1: 1-18. -- 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
2020-09-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Edwards, 2020