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Genus: Cerionesta Simon, 1901 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Cerionesta pacifica (Banks, 1902)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035514

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Described:

Distribution: Galapagos

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

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Taxonomic References

Philaeus pacificus Banks, 1902c: 67 (Dmf) Original description

Cerionesta pacifica Edwards & Baert, 2018: 12, f. 6A-G, 7A-C, 8A-C (mf, T from Philaeus)

Cerionesta pacifica Baert et al., 2023: 23, f. 78A-G (mf)

References

Baert, L., Maelfait, J.-P., Desender, K., Hendrickx, F., Dekoninck, W., Berthet, M., Bouckaert, K., Caudron, J. & Leclercq, M. (2023). Updated checklist, origin, distribution, literature and genital drawings of the spiders of the Galápagos Islands. Belgian Journal of Entomology 142: 1-188. [[includes figs of 5 undescribed species]] -- Show included taxa

Banks, N. (1902c). Papers from the Hopkins Stanford Galapagos Expedition; 1898-1899. VII. Entomological Results (6). Arachnida. With field notes by Robert E. Snodgrass. Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences 4: 49-86. -- Show included taxa

Edwards, G. B. & Baert, L. (2018). New species, combinations, and records of jumping spiders in the Galápagos Islands (Araneae: Salticidae). Belgian Journal of Entomology 67: 1-27. -- 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	Comment
2024-12-22	New taxonomic reference entry	Baert et al., 2023
2018-05-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Edwards & Baert, 2018
2018-05-29	Species transferred to new genus	Edwards & Baert, 2018	Species transferred from Philaeus to Cerionesta