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Genus: Sassacus G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1895 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Sassacus helenicus (Mello-Leitão, 1943)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036087

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil

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 (database excerpt, August 2019) Ramboia helenica Mello-Leitão, 1943, (42183); 1 f (probably destroyed by the fire 2018) -

Taxonomic References

Ramboia helenica Mello-Leitão, 1943a: 230, f. 56 (Df) Original description

Sassacus felix Bauab-Vianna & Soares, 1978c: 27, f. 1-7 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054582]

Sassacus helenicus Bauab-Vianna & Soares, 1982: 89, f. 8-11 (m, S of Sassacus felix)

References

Bauab-Vianna, M. J. & Soares, B. A. M. (1978c). Contribuição ao estudo dos Salticidae do Brasil. II (Araneae). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 38: 27-30. -- Show included taxa

Bauab-Vianna, M. J. & Soares, B. A. M. (1982). Contribuição ao estudo dos Salticidae (Araneae) do Brasil. IX. Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 26: 87-91. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1943a). Catálogo das aranhas do Rio Grande do Sul. Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 37: 147-245, 24 pls. -- 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]

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