Phintella aequipes (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035525

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Described:

Distribution: Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Central African Rep., Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa


Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m (IZ:23128) of Pochyta solers - (Peckham & Peckham, 1903)
  • Syntype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 1f (IZ:20812) of Phintella clara - (Peckham & Peckham, 1903)
Taxonomic References
Telamonia aequipes Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 188, pl. 19, f. 3 (Dm) Original description
Heliophanus clarus Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 190, pl. 21, f. 6 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033768]
Pochyta solers Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 199, pl. 22, f. 1 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035699]
Telamonia aequipes longirostris Lessert, 1925a: 448, f. 26-30 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058745]
Phintella aequipes Prószyński, 1984a: 106 (mf, T from Telamonia, S of Telamonia aequipes longirostris)
Heliophanus clarus Wesołowska, 1986: 231, f. 873-875 (f)
Phintella aequipes Wesołowska & Cumming, 2008: 203, f. 113-121 (mf, S of Heliophanus clarus)
Phintella aequipes Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009: 69, f. 134-135 (m)
Phintella aequipes Wesołowska, 2012b: 332 (S of Pochyta solers)
Phintella aequipes Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 74, f. 45G-H (m)
Phintella aequipes Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026: 30, f. 24A-B (f)
References

Lessert, R. de (1925a). Araignées du Kilimandjaro et du Merou (suite). 5. Salticidae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 31: 429-528. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1903). New species of the family Attidae from South Africa, with notes on the distribution of the genera found in the Ethiopian region. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 14(1): 173-278, pl. 19-29. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1984a). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae). Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej w Siedlcach 2: 1-177. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (1986). A revision of the genus Heliophanus C. L. Koch, 1833 (Aranei: Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 40: 1-254. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Cumming, M. S. (2008). Taxonomy and natural history of a species rich assemblage of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae); a long-term study of a suburban site in Zimbabwe. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 58: 167-230. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Haddad, C. R. (2009). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Ndumo Game Reserve, Maputaland, South Africa. African Invertebrates 50(1): 13-103. doi: 10.5733/afin.050.0102 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (2012b). Redescriptions of some salticid species (Araneae: Salticidae) from South Africa and Zimbabwe described by G. and E. Peckham. African Entomology 20(2): 325-342. doi: 10.4001/003.020.0223 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2022). Jumping spiders from Ivory Coast collected by J.-C. Ledoux (Araneae, Salticidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 841: 1-143. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2022.841.1943 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W., Russell-Smith, A. & Danflous, S. (2026). The jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from the southwestern region of Central African Republic. Zootaxa 5743(1): 1-74. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5743.1.1 -- 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
2026-01-12 New taxonomic reference entry Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026
2026-01-12 Species distribution update Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026 Old value
2025-06-29 Species distribution update Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025 Old value
2024-12-30 Species distribution update Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 Old value
2022-10-16 New taxonomic reference entry Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022

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