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Genus: Spadera G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1894 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Spadera unica G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1894

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035835

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Described:

Distribution: Madagascar

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

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Taxonomic References

Spadera unica Peckham & Peckham, 1894a: 118, pl. 12, f. 1 (Dm) Original description

Pseudicius unicus Simon, 1901a: 613, 623 (T from Spadera)

Pseudicius unicus Prószyński, 1987: 51 (m)

Spadera unica Prószyński, 2017b: 42, f. 19K (m, T from Pseudicius)

References

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1894a). Spiders of the Marptusa group. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2(2): 83-156. -- 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. (2017b). Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 12: 1-133. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.12.1 -- 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

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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
2017-09-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b
2017-09-09	Species transferred to new genus	Prószyński, 2017b		Species transferred from Pseudicius to Spadera