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Genus: Icius Simon, 1876 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Icius grassei (Berland & Millot, 1941)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036597

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Described:

Distribution: Malawi, Nigeria, DR Congo, Kenya

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

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Taxonomic References

Mithion grassei Berland & Millot, 1941: 356, f. 56E-H (Df) Original description

Pseudicius grassei Wesołowska & Edwards, 2012: 758, f. 85-87 (f, T from Mithion)

Icius grassei Wesołowska, 2017: 253, f. 1A-F, 2A-D, 3A-G, 4A-E (Dm, f, T from Pseudicius)

References

Berland, L. & Millot, J. (1941). Les araignées de l'Afrique Occidentale Française I.-Les salticides. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (N.S.) 12: 297-423. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Edwards, G. B. (2012). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Calabar area (SE Nigeria). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 62(4): 733-772. doi: 10.3161/000345412X659786 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (2017). Description of the male of Icius grassei (Araneae: Salticidae). Arachnology 17(5): 253-257. doi: 10.13156/arac.2017.17.5.253 -- 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
2017-07-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska, 2017
2017-07-11	Species transferred to new genus	Wesołowska, 2017		Species transferred from Pseudicius to Icius
2017-07-11	Species distribution update	Wesołowska, 2017	Old value
2017-07-11	First description of male	Wesołowska, 2017	Old value