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Genus: Sandalodes Keyserling, 1883 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Sandalodes superbus (Karsch, 1878)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040931

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Described:

Distribution: New Guinea, Australia

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) Alcmena superba Karsch, 1878, (1601) -

Taxonomic References

Alcmena superba Karsch, 1878d: 29 (Df) Original description

Acompse ludicrus Keyserling, 1882: 1326, pl. 113, f. 1-2 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059033]

Philaeus superciliosus Bertkau in Förster & Bertkau, 1883: 277, pl. 3, f. 8 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035520]

Bavia ludicra Rainbow, 1911: 281

Bavia ludicra Hickman, 1967: 85, f. 150-152 (f, Dm)

Sandalodes superbus Żabka, 2000: 700, f. 2G, 9-10 (Dm, f, removed from S of Sandalodes scopifer, rejecting Żabka, 1991c: 51, S of S. ludicrus)

Sandalodes superbus Breitling et al., 2016b: 67 (S of Philaeus superciliosus)

References

Breitling, R., Bauer, T., Schäfer, M., Morano, E., Barrientos, J. A. & Blick, T. (2016b). Phantom spiders 2: More notes on dubious spider species from Europe. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 52: 50-77. doi: 10.5431/aramit5209 -- Show included taxa

Förster, A. & Bertkau, P. (1883). Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Spinnenfauna der Rheinprovinz. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens 40: 205-278. -- Show included taxa

Hickman, V. V. (1967). Some common spiders of Tasmania. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 112 pp. -- Show included taxa

Karsch, F. (1878d). Diagnoses Attoidarum aliquot novarum Novae Hollandiae collectionis Musei Zoologici Berolinensis. Mittheilungen des Münchener Entomologischen Vereins 2: 22-32. -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1882). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 29-30]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 1325-1420, pl. 113-120. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.121660 -- Show included taxa

Rainbow, W. J. (1911). A census of Australian Araneidae. Records of the Australian Museum 9(2): 107-319. doi: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.9.1911.928 -- Show included taxa

Żabka, M. (2000). Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Oriental, Australian and Pacific regions, XIII: the genus Sandalodes Keyserling. Invertebrate Taxonomy 14(5): 695-704. doi: 10.1071/IT99006 -- 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.

Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

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
2016-10-04	Species synonymy	Breitling et al., 2016b		Sandalodes superciliosus synonymized with Sandalodes superbus