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Genus: Gratianna Caleb, 2025 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Gratianna yunnanensis (Song, 1991)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035865

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Described:

Distribution: China

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IZCAS), Beijing, China f - (Caleb, Bera & Acharya, 2020)
Holotype: Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IZCAS), Beijing, China m of Carrhotus kevinlii - (Caleb, Bera & Acharya, 2020)
Paratype: Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IZCAS), Beijing, China 2m 2f of Carrhotus kevinlii - (Cao, Li & Żabka, 2016)

Taxonomic References

Ptocasius yunnanensis Song, 1991a: 165, f. 3A-D (Df) Original description

Ptocasius yunnanensis Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 543, f. 314A-B (f)

Carrhotus kevinlii Cao & Li in Cao, Li & Żabka, 2016: 56, f. 9A-D, 10A-E (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:048880]

Carrhotus yunnanensis Caleb, Bera & Acharya, 2020: 65, f. 18-19 (m, T from Ptocasius, S of Carrhotus kevinlii)

Ptocasius yunnanensis Peng, 2020: 381, f. 277a-c (f)

Gratianna yunnanensis Caleb, 2025b: 7, f. 4-6 (m, T from Carrhotus)

References

Caleb, J. T. D., Bera, C. & Acharya, S. (2020). New species and synonymies in the genus Carrhotus Thorell, 1891 from India (Aranei: Salticidae: Salticini). Arthropoda Selecta 29(1): 51-66. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.29.1.04 -- Show included taxa

Caleb, J. T. D. (2025b). Gratianna gen. nov., a new jumping spider genus (Araneae: Salticidae: Plexippini) from tropical and subtropical evergreen forests of southern China and Northeast India. Peckhamia 343.1: 1-8. -- Show included taxa

Cao, Q., Li, S. Q. & Żabka, M. (2016). The jumping spiders from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China (Araneae, Salticidae). ZooKeys 630: 43-104. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.630.8466 -- Show included taxa

Peng, X. J. (2020). Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 53, Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae. Science Press, Beijing, 612 pp. -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X. (1991a). Three new species of the genus Ptocasius from China (Araneae: Salticidae). Sinozoologia 8: 163-168. -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- 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	Comment
2025-10-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Caleb, 2025b
2025-10-02	Species transferred to new genus	Caleb, 2025b	Species transferred from Carrhotus to Gratianna
2020-07-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Peng, 2020
2020-03-30	Species synonymy	Caleb, Bera & Acharya, 2020	Carrhotus kevinlii synonymized with Carrhotus yunnanensis
2020-03-30	New taxonomic reference entry	Caleb, Bera & Acharya, 2020
2020-03-30	Species transferred to new genus	Caleb, Bera & Acharya, 2020	Species transferred from Ptocasius to Carrhotus