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Genus: Jollas Simon, 1901 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Jollas leucoproctus (Mello-Leitão, 1944)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036242

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina

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

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Holotype: Museo de La Plata (MLP), La Plata, Argentina m (16235) - (Galiano, 1980b)

Taxonomic References

Cerionesta leucoprocta Mello-Leitão, 1944b: 380, f. 74 (Dm) Original description

Sitticus leucoproctus Galiano, 1963b: 2, pl. II, f. 1-2 (Tm from Cerionesta)

Sitticus leucoproctus Galiano, 1989b: 259, f. 1-2, 8-9, 12-14, 19, 22 (m, Df)

Sitticus leucoproctus Prószyński, 2017a: 42, f. 2K (mf)

Sitticus leucoproctus Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018: 108, f. 76, 77A-B, 78A-B (mf)

Jollas leucoproctus W. Maddison in Maddison et al., 2020a: 27 (T from Sitticus)

References

Galiano, M. E. (1963b). Nota sobre arañas del grupo Marpisseae (Araneae, Salticidae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 24: 1-8. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1989b). Las especies de Sitticus del grupo leucoproctus (Araneae, Salticidae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 45: 257-269. -- Show included taxa

Maddison, W. P., Maddison, D. R., Derkarabetian, S. & Hedin, M. (2020a). Sitticine jumping spiders: phylogeny, classification, and chromosomes (Araneae, Salticidae, Sitticini). ZooKeys 925: 1-54. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.925.39691 -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1944b). Arañas de la provincia de Buenos Aires. Revista del Museo de La Plata (N.S., Zool.) 3: 311-393. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2017a). Revision of the genus Sitticus Simon, 1901 s. l. (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 10: 35-50. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.10.7 -- 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

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	Comment
2025-08-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018
2020-04-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Maddison et al., 2020a
2020-04-09	Species transferred to new genus	Maddison et al., 2020a	Species transferred from Sitticus to Jollas
2017-04-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017a