Platycryptus magnus (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1894)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034473

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Described:


Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) f (01043, destroyed by the fire 2018) of Naubolus aureocomosus -
  • Lectotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA f - (Edwards, 2006)
  • Paralectotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 1jm - (Edwards, 2006)
Taxonomic References
Marptusa magna Peckham & Peckham, 1894a: 87, pl. 8, f. 3 (Df) Original description
Marptusa broadwayi Peckham & Peckham, 1894a: 89, pl. 8, f. 5 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034458]
Marptusa broadwayi Peckham & Peckham, 1895b: 212 (mf)
Marpissa magna F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 250, pl. 22, f. 3-4 (f)
Marpissa broadwayi Simon, 1901a: 603
Menemerus delus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936a: 30, pl. 8, f. 63 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060519]
Naubolus aureocomosus Mello-Leitão, 1943b: 264 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:060518]
Marpissa magna Chickering, 1946: 44, f. 23-26 (Dm, f, S of Menemerus delus)
Marpissa broadwayi Galiano, 1981a: 11 (S of Naubolus aureocomosus)
Platycryptus broadwayi Edwards, Rinaldi & Ruiz, 2005: 23, f. 19-20, 51 (mf, T from Marpissa)
Platycryptus magnus Edwards, 2006: 210, f. 109-114 (mf, T from Marpissa, S of Platycryptus broadwayi)
References

Chamberlin, R. V. & Ivie, W. (1936a). New spiders from Mexico and Panama. Bulletin of the University of Utah 27(5): 1-103. -- Show included taxa

Chickering, A. M. (1946). The Salticidae of Panama. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 97: 1-474. -- Show included taxa

Edwards, G. B., Rinaldi, I. M. P. & Ruiz, G. R. S. (2005). A review of some South American species of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) described by Mello-Leitão from Brasil, with resolution of the genus Asaphobelis. Biota Neotropica 5(2): 1-31. (External link) -- Show included taxa

Edwards, G. B. (2006). A review of described Metacyrba, the status of Parkella, and notes on Platycryptus and Balmaceda, with a comparison of the genera (Araneae: Salticidae: Marpissinae). Insecta Mundi 19: 193-226. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1981a). Catalogo de los especimenes tipicos de Salticidae (Araneae) descriptos por Candido F. de Mello-Leitão. Segunda parte. Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (Secc. C) 39: 11-17. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1943b). Araneologica varia brasiliana. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 15: 255-265. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1894a). Spiders of the Marptusa group. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2(2): 83-156. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1895b). New Trinidad spiders of the family Attidae. Journal of the Trinidad Field Naturalist's Club 2(9): 212-216. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1901a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2, pp. 193-312, pl. 15-30. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1901a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 381-668. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[last page with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- 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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