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Genus: Pseudomaevia Rainbow, 1920 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Pseudomaevia cognata Rainbow, 1920

SPECIES | ACCEPTED | TYPE SPECIES

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035844

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Described:

Distribution: Australia (Lord Howe Is.)

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

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Taxonomic References

Pseudomaevia cognata Rainbow, 1920b: 269, pl. 31, f. 123-127 (Dm) Original description

Pseudomaevia cognata Richardson, 2014: 389, f. 1-15 (m, Df)

Pseudomaevia cognata Prószyński, 2017b: 129, f. 56M (mf)

References

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

Rainbow, W. J. (1920b). Arachnida from Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. Records of the South Australian Museum 1(3): 229-272, pl. 28-31. -- Show included taxa

Richardson, B. J. (2014). A redescription of the type species of the jumping spider genus Pseudomaevia (Araneae: Salticidae) from Lord Howe Island, Australia. Zootaxa 3811(3): 387-392. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3811.3.10 -- 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
2017-09-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b
2014-06-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Richardson, 2014
2014-06-06	First description of female	Richardson, 2014	Old value