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Genus: Pseudofluda Mello-Leitão, 1928 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Pseudofluda pulcherrima Mello-Leitão, 1928

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035842

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil, Argentina

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil m (1004) - destroyed in fire - (Nadal & Rubio, 2019)

Taxonomic References

Pseudofluda pulcherrima Mello-Leitão, 1928b: 53 (Dm) Original description

Pseudofluda pulcherrima Mello-Leitão, 1933a: 97, pl. 2, f. 16 (m)

Pseudofluda pulcherrima Edwards, Rinaldi & Ruiz, 2005: 22, f. 10-13 (m)

Pseudofluda pulcherrima Nadal & Rubio, 2019: 82, f. 1, 3, 9-10, 14, 17, 23-26 (m, Df)

Pseudofluda pulcherrima Nadal, 2021: 108, f. 11, 14, 17, 20-25, 36, 40, 44, 48, 52-55 (mf)

References

Edwards, G. B., Rinaldi, I. M. P. & Ruiz, G. R. S. (2005). A review of some South American species of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) described by Mello-Leitão from Brasil, with resolution of the genus Asaphobelis. Biota Neotropica 5(2): 1-31. (External link) -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1928b). Novas notas arachnologicas. VI-IX. Boletim do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 4(3): 49-54. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1933a). Ensaio sobre as myrmarachninas do Brasil. Boletim do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 9: 39-102. -- Show included taxa

Nadal, M. F. & Rubio, G. D. (2019). On the genus Pseudofluda (Araneae, Salticidae): two new species including the first description of a female and distribution data. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 54(2): 80-86. doi: 10.1080/01650521.2019.1593606 -- Show included taxa

Nadal, M. F. (2021). Description of a new species of Pseudofluda Mello-Leitão 1928 (Salticidae: Dendryphantini: Dendryphantina) from Chaco, Argentina. Acta Arachnologica 70(2): 107-116. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.70.107 -- 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
2022-01-04	New taxonomic reference entry	Nadal, 2021
2019-07-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Nadal & Rubio, 2019
2019-07-09	First description of female	Nadal & Rubio, 2019	Old value
2019-07-09	Species distribution update	Nadal & Rubio, 2019	Old value