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

Scopocira melanops (Taczanowski, 1871)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036104

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil

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

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Holotype: Museum and Institute of Zoology (MIZ), Polish Academy of Science (PAN), Warsaw, Poland Salticus melanops Taczanowski, 1871 - (Prószyński, 1971e)

Taxonomic References

Salticus melanops Taczanowski, 1871: 117 (Df) Original description

Myrmarachne melanops Simon, 1901a: 503

Scopocira melanops Galiano, 1969b: 145 (T from Myrmarachne)

Scopocira melanops Costa & Ruiz, 2014: 182, f. 37, 48, 100-101, 168-173 (f, Dm)

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. (1969b). Salticidae (Araneae) formiciformes. VII. El género Myrmarachne Mac Leay, 1839, en America. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (Ent.) 3: 107-148. -- 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

Taczanowski, L. (1871). Les aranéides de la Guyane française. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 8: 32-132, pl. 3-4. -- 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
2014-12-10	Species distribution update	Costa & Ruiz, 2014	Old value
2014-12-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Costa & Ruiz, 2014
2014-12-10	First description of male	Costa & Ruiz, 2014	Old value