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

Scopocira tenella Simon, 1900

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036107

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Described:

Distribution: Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, French Guiana, Brazil

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 Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (MACN) “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina m (4955) of Scopocira pikelinae - (Galiano & Maury, 1979)
Allotype: Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (MACN) “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina f (4956) of Scopocira pikelinae - (Galiano & Maury, 1979)

Taxonomic References

Scopocira tenella Simon, 1900b: 386 (Df) Original description

Scopocira pikelinae Galiano, 1958: 21, f. 1A-I (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:065208]

Scopocira tenella Galiano, 1963a: 440, pl. 36, f. 10-11 (f, S of Scopocira pikelinae)

Scopocira tenella Costa & Ruiz, 2014: 188, f. 2, 5-18, 22-29, 51-60, 65-70, 106-107, 180-185 (mf)

Scopocira tenella Prószyński, 2017b: 83, f. 37R (m)

Scopocira tenella Carvalho & Gasnier, 2019: CB40, f. 185-186 (m)

References

Carvalho, T. G. de & Gasnier, T. R. J. (2019). Illustrated inventory of spiders from Amazonas state, Brazil: 94 understory species from a forest fragment in Manaus. Scientia Amazonia 8(2): CB1-CB53. -- Show included taxa

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

Prószyński, J. (2017b). Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 12: 1-133. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.12.1 -- 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

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
2026-02-23	Species distribution update	Courtial, Picard & Pétillon, 2026	Old value
2020-06-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Carvalho & Gasnier, 2019
2017-09-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b
2015-08-17	Species distribution update	Galvis, 2015c	Old value
2014-12-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Costa & Ruiz, 2014
2014-12-10	Species distribution update	Costa & Ruiz, 2014	Old value