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Genus: Rhyphelia Simon, 1902 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Rhyphelia aurifrons (Taczanowski, 1878)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033253

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Described:

Distribution: Peru, French Guiana

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

Type Repository Provide information

Lectotype: Museum and Institute of Zoology (MIZ), Polish Academy of Science (PAN), Warsaw, Poland m - (Ruiz, 2011b)
Paralectotype: Museum and Institute of Zoology (MIZ), Polish Academy of Science (PAN), Warsaw, Poland 1j - (Ruiz, 2011b)

Taxonomic References

Euophrys aurifrons Taczanowski, 1878a: 308 (Dm) Original description

Soesilarishius aurifrons Ruiz, 2011b: 23, f. 1 (m, T from Euophrys)

Rhyphelia aurifrons Nobre & Ruiz, 2024: 473 (T from Soesilarishius)

References

Nobre, W. B. & Ruiz, G. R. S. (2024). On the boundary of the jumping spider genus Rhyphelia Simon, 1902 (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini), with description of ten new species. Zootaxa 5418(5): 471-500. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5418.5.3 -- Show included taxa

Ruiz, G. R. S. (2011b). Systematics of the genus Soesilarishius (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae). Zootaxa 3022: 22-38. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3022.1.2 -- Show included taxa

Taczanowski, L. (1878a). Les Aranéides du Pérou. Famille des Attides. Bulletin de la Société Imperiale des Naturalists de Moscou 53: 278-374. -- 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
2024-03-05	New taxonomic reference entry	Nobre & Ruiz, 2024
2024-03-05	Species transferred to new genus	Nobre & Ruiz, 2024		Species transferred from Soesilarishius to Rhyphelia
2014-09-14	Species distribution update	Courtial et al., 2014	Old value