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Genus: Scopocira Simon, 1900 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Scopocira histrio Simon, 1900

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036103

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Described:

Distribution: Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Brazil, Argentina

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 -
Holotype: Museo de La Plata (MLP), La Plata, Argentina f (16870) of Suaruna delicata - (Galiano, 1981a)

Taxonomic References

Scopocira histrio Simon, 1900b: 386 (Dm) Original description

Scopocira histrio Simon, 1901a: 444, f. 499 (m)

Grauhara vivida Peckham & Peckham, 1901c: 226, pl. 2, f. 2 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036108]

Scopocira vivida Simon, 1903a: 1049

Suaruna delicata Mello-Leitão, 1945b: 298, f. 91 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065206]

Scopocira delicata Galiano, 1958: 25, f. 2A-K (Dm, f, T from Suaruna)

Scopocira histrio Galiano, 1963a: 439, pl. 36, f. 7-9 (mf, S of Scopocira delicata)

Scopocira histrio Costa & Ruiz, 2014: 175, f. 3-4, 35, 45-46, 96-97, 156-161 (mf, S of Scopocira vivida)

Scopocira histrio Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018: 120, f. 92, 93A-B (mf)

References

Costa, E. L. S. & Ruiz, G. R. S. (2014). Taxonomic revision of Scopocira Simon, 1900 (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 3893(2): 151-195. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3893.2.1 -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1958). Novedades sobre los géneros Scopocira Simon y Gypogyna Simon (Araneae, Salticidae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 20: 21-32. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1963a). Las especies americanas de arañas de la familia Salticidae descriptas por Eugène Simon. Redescripciones basadas en los ejemplares típicos. Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (C) 23(68): 273-470. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1945b). Arañas de Misiones, Corrientes y Entre Ríos. Revista del Museo de La Plata (N.S.) 4(Zoología 29): 213-302. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1901c). Pellenes and some other genera of the family Attidae. Bulletin of the Wisconsin Natural History Society (N.S.) 1(4): 195-233, pl. 1-2. -- Show included taxa

Rubio, G. D., Baigorria, J. E. M. & Scioscia, C. L. (2018). Arañas saltícidas de Misiones. Guía para la identificación (tribus basales). Ediciones Fundación Azara, Universidad Maimónides, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, 208 pp. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1900b). Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 44: 381-407. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1901a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 381-668. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[last page with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1903a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 669-1080. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- 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
2025-08-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018
2023-07-19	Species distribution update	Courtial et al., 2023	Old value
2014-12-10	Species distribution update	Costa & Ruiz, 2014	Old value
2014-12-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Costa & Ruiz, 2014
2014-12-10	Species synonymy	Costa & Ruiz, 2014		Scopocira vivida synonymized with Scopocira histrio