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Genus: Mexigonus Edwards, 2003 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Mexigonus peninsulanus (Banks, 1898)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036258

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Described:

Distribution: Mexico

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

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Syntype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 1m - (Prószyński, 1971e)

Taxonomic References

Attus peninsulanus Banks, 1898b: 285, pl. 17, f. 16 (Dm) Original description

Sitticus peninsulanus Petrunkevitch, 1911: 709

Mexigonus peninsulanus W. Maddison in Maddison et al., 2020a: 38 (T from Sitticus)

References

Banks, N. (1898b). Arachnida from Baja California and other parts of Mexico. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (3) 1(7): 205-309. -- 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

Petrunkevitch, A. (1911). A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 29: 1-791. -- 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	Comment
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 Mexigonus