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Genus: Simonurius Galiano, 1988 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Simonurius gladifer (Simon, 1901)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED | TYPE SPECIES

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036201

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil, Argentina

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m - (Marta et al., 2022)
Holotype: Museo de La Plata (MLP), La Plata, Argentina f (14972) of Akela trilineata - (Galiano, 1980b)

Taxonomic References

Akela gladifera Simon, 1901c: 146 (Dm) Original description

Akela trilineata Mello-Leitão, 1941d: 182, f. 76 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041123]

Akela gladifera Galiano, 1963a: 286, pl. IV, f. 1-2 (m)

Simonurius gladiferus Galiano, 1988a: 296, f. 2-3, 27-32 (mf, T from Akela, S of Akela trinileata)

Simonurius gladiferus Prószyński, 2017b: 69, f. 32D (mf)

Simonurius gladifer Marta et al., 2022: 448, f. 49-58, 65-66 (f)

References

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

Galiano, M. E. (1988a). Revision de los géneros del grupo Hurieae (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Arachnology 15: 285-301. -- Show included taxa

Marta, K. S., Bustamante, A. A., Ruiz, G. R. S., Teixeira, R. A., Hagopián, D., Brescovit, A. D., Valiati, V. H. & Rodrigues, E. N. L. (2022). A new huriine genus and notes on morphological characters (Araneae: Salticidae: Salticinae). Zootaxa 5124(4): 431-457. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5124.4.2 -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1941d). Las arañas de Córdoba, La Rioja, Catamarca, Tucumán, Salta y Jujuy colectadas por los Profesores Birabén. Revista del Museo de La Plata (N.S., Zool.) 2: 99-198. -- 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. (1901c). Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 45: 141-161. -- 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
2022-04-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Marta et al., 2022
2022-04-06	Species distribution update	Marta et al., 2022	Old value
2017-09-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b