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Genus: Pseudicius Simon, 1885 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Pseudicius badius (Simon, 1868)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035776

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Described:

Distribution: France (Corsica), Italy to Iran

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

Type Repository Provide information

It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France -

Taxonomic References

Marpissus badius Simon, 1868b: 23 (Df) Original description

Attus badius Simon, 1871a: 181 (Dm)

Marpessa badius Pavesi, 1873a: 215

Dendryphantes badius Simon, 1876a: 44

Pseudicius badius Simon, 1885c: 309

Pseudicius espereyi Hadjissarantos, 1940: 108, f. 36 (m; misidentified per Prószyński, 2003: 156)

Pseudicius badius Prószyński, 1987: 50 (m)

Pseudicius badius Metzner, 1999: 90, f. 55a-h (mf)

Pseudicius badius Prószyński, 2003: 156, f. 633-634 (m)

Pseudicius badius Logunov, 2015a: 76, f. 104-105 (m)

References

Hadjissarantos, H. (1940). Les araignées de l'Attique. Published by the author, Athens, Greece, 132 pp. -- Show included taxa

Logunov, D. V. (2015a). Taxonomic-faunistic notes on the jumping spiders of the Mediterranean (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 24(1): 33-85. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.24.1.03 -- Show included taxa

Metzner, H. (1999). Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279. -- Show included taxa

Pavesi, P. (1873a). Catalogo sistematico dei ragni del cantone ticino con la loro distribuzione orizzontale e verticale e cenni sulla araneologia elvetica. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 4: 5-215. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1987). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae 2. Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoly Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej Siedlcach, 172 pp. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2003). Salticidae (Araneae) of the Levant. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 53: 1-180. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1868b). Monographie des espèces européennes de la famille des Attides (Attidae Sundewall. - Saltigradae Latreille). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (4) 8: 11-72, 529-726, pl. 5-7. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1871a). Révision des Attidae européens. Supplément à la monographie des Attides (Attidae Sund.). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (5) 1: 125-230, 329-360. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1876a). Les arachnides de France. Tome troisième. Roret, Paris, 364 pp., pl. 9-13. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1885c). Études arachnologiques. 16e Mémoire. XXIII. Matériaux pour servir à la faune des arachnides de la Grèce. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 4(4, 1884): 305-356. [[published May 13, 1885]] -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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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.

Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

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
2020-01-28	Species distribution update	Miñano & Tamajón, 2017	Old value
2020-01-28	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Afraflacilla tarajalis Miñano & Tamajón, 2017
2015-07-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Logunov, 2015a
2015-07-13	Species distribution update	Logunov, 2015a	Old value