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Genus: Portia Karsch, 1878 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Portia albimana (Simon, 1900)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035710

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Described:

Distribution: Pakistan, India to Vietnam

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

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Lectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f (17764) - (Wanless, 1978f)

Taxonomic References

Linus albimanus Simon, 1900d: 33 (Dm) Original description

Portia albimana Wanless, 1978f: 107, f. 12A-D (m)

Portia albimana Murphy & Murphy, 1983a: 40, f. 4-5 (Df)

Portia albimana Żabka, 1985: 437, f. 487-490 (m)

Portia albimana Ahmed et al., 2015c: 1, f. 7.1-4 (m)

Portia albimana Caleb et al., 2025a: 91, f. 11A-E (m)

References

Ahmed, J., Satam, Y., Khalap, R. & Mohan, K. (2015c). First record of Portia albimana (Simon, 1900) from Maharashtra, Mumbai (Araneae: Salticidae: Spartaeinae). Peckhamia 129.1: 1-6. -- Show included taxa

Caleb, J. T. D., Sudhin, P. P., Nisha, B. G., Maliye, C. C., Sanap, R. V., Kadam, G. & Sen, S. (2025a). Novel additions to the jumping spider subfamily Spartaeinae Wanless, 1984 from India (Araneae, Salticidae, Spartaeini). European Journal of Taxonomy 997: 77-98. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2025.997.2925 -- Show included taxa

Murphy, J. & Murphy, F. (1983a). More about Portia (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 6(1): 37-45. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1900d). Etudes arachnologiques. 30e Mémoire. XLVII. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Attidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 69: 27-61. -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. (1978f). A revision of the spider genus Portia (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 34: 83-124. -- Show included taxa

Żabka, M. (1985). Systematic and zoogeographic study on the family Salticidae (Araneae) from Viet-Nam. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 39: 197-485. -- 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
2025-06-12	New taxonomic reference entry	Caleb et al., 2025a
2020-09-30	Species distribution update		Old value
2015-09-08	New taxonomic reference entry	Ahmed et al., 2015c