World Spider Catalog

Genus: Simaetha Thorell, 1881 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Simaetha tenuidens (Keyserling, 1882)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036188

Permalink: https://wsc.nmbe.ch/lsid/urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036188

Described:

Distribution: Papua New Guinea, Australia (Queensland)

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

Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019) m (A0001697) -
Holotype: Hungarian Natural History Museum (HNHM), Budapest, Hungary f of Simaetha chelicerata - (Prószyński, 1983b)

Taxonomic References

Eulabes tenuideus Keyserling, 1882: 1393, pl. 118. f. 3-4 (Dmf, lapsus in heading, correct on p. 1482) Original description

Pirithous tenuidens Keyserling, 1883b: 1477

Simaetha tenuidens Peckham & Peckham, 1901a: 306

Simaetha chelicerata Szombathy, 1915a: 482, f. 10 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055115]

Simaetha chelicerata Prószyński, 1983b: 296, f. 22, 25, 29 (f)

Simaetha tenuidens Prószyński, 1984a: 132-133 (mf)

Simaetha tenuidens Prószyński, 1987: 167 (S of Simaetha tenuidens)

Simaetha tenuidens Żabka, 1994: 511, f. 7A-E, 8A-F (mf)

References

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

Keyserling, E. (1883b). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 31]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 1421-1489, pl. 120-123. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.121660 -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1901a). Spiders of the Phidippus group of the family Attidae. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 13: 282-358. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1983b). Redescriptions of types of Oriental and Australian Salticidae (Aranea) in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. Folia Entomologica Hungarica 44(2): 283-297. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1984a). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae). Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej w Siedlcach 2: 1-177. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1987). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae 2. Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoly Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej Siedlcach, 172 pp. -- Show included taxa

Szombathy, C. (1915a). Attides nouveaux appartenant aux collections du Musée national hongrois. Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 13: 468-490. -- Show included taxa

Żabka, M. (1994). Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of Oriental, Australian and Pacific regions, X. Genus Simaetha Thorell. Records of the Western Australian Museum 16(4): 499-534. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

* Disclaimer
As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

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

No logging data available so far.