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

Saitis breviusculus Simon, 1901

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035958

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Described:

Distribution: Gabon

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

Type Repository Provide information

It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France -

Taxonomic References

Saitis breviusculus Simon, 1901g: 67 (Df; N.B.: misplaced in this genus, per Wesolowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014: 4) Original description

References

Simon, E. (1901g). Etudes arachnologiques. 31e Mémoire. L. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Salticidae (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 70(1): 66-76. -- 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
2014-09-26	Species updated		Old value	Species epithet corrected
2014-08-07	Taxonomic reference update	Wesołowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014	Old value