World Spider Catalog

Genus: Psecas C. L. Koch, 1850 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Psecas viridipurpureus (Simon, 1901)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035745

Permalink: https://wsc.nmbe.ch/lsid/urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035745

Described:

Distribution: French Guiana, Brazil, Paraguay

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

Type Repository Provide information

Lectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f - (Galiano, 1963a)
Paralectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 1f jj - (Galiano, 1963a)

Taxonomic References

Epinga viridipurpurea Simon, 1901a: 463, 468 (Df) Original description

Psecas viridipurpureus Galiano, 1963a: 424, pl. XXXII, f. 19 (f)

Psecas viridipurpureus Pett, Rubio & Stolar, 2021: 927, f. 8H-K (m, N.B.: unknown male not described)

References

Galiano, M. E. (1963a). Las especies americanas de arañas de la familia Salticidae descriptas por Eugène Simon. Redescripciones basadas en los ejemplares típicos. Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (C) 23(68): 273-470. -- Show included taxa

Pett, B. L., Rubio, G. D. & Stolar, C. E. (2021). A first baseline for the salticid (Araneae: Salticidae) fauna of Paraguay, with thirty-two new records and description of a new species from Paraguay and Argentina. Arachnology 18(8): 922-935. doi: 10.13156/arac.2021.18.8.922 -- 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

* Disclaimer
As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

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
2026-03-04	Species distribution update	Courtial, Picard & Pétillon, 2026	Old value
2021-07-05	Species distribution update	Pett, Rubio & Stolar, 2021	Old value
2021-07-05	New taxonomic reference entry	Pett, Rubio & Stolar, 2021