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Genus: Porius Thorell, 1892 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Porius decempunctatus (Szombathy, 1915)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035706

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Described:

Distribution: Papua New Guinea

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Hungarian Natural History Museum (HNHM), Budapest, Hungary f (Araneae-5131) - (Szűts et al., 2020)

Taxonomic References

Ballus decempunctatus Szombathy, 1915a: 472, f. 4 (Df) Original description

Coccorchestes decempunctatus Prószyński, 1983b: 292, f. 21, 24-8 (f, T from Ballus)

Porius decempunctatus Prószyński, 1983b: Errata, p. 297 (T from Coccorchestes)

Porius decempunctatus Szűts et al., 2020: 536, f. 47-60 (Dm, f)

References

Prószyński, J. (1983b). Redescriptions of types of Oriental and Australian Salticidae (Aranea) in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. Folia Entomologica Hungarica 44(2): 283-297. -- Show included taxa

Szombathy, C. (1915a). Attides nouveaux appartenant aux collections du Musée national hongrois. Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 13: 468-490. -- Show included taxa

Szűts, T., Zhang, J. X., Gallé-Szpisjak, N. & De Bakker, D. (2020). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Papua New Guinean Mount Wilhelm and surrounding mountains. In: Robillard, T., Legendre, F., Villemant, C. & Leponce, M. (eds.) Insects of Mount Wilhelm, Papua New Guinea - volume 2. Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle 214: 521-555. -- 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
2020-11-19	New taxonomic reference entry	Szűts et al., 2020
2020-11-19	First description of male	Szűts et al., 2020	Old value