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

Rhyphelia ruizi (Zhang & Maddison, 2012)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:045590

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Described:

Distribution: French Guiana, Brazil

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Instituto Butantan, São Paulo (IBSP), Brazil m (INPA5033) - (Zhang & Maddison, 2012c)
Paratype: Instituto Butantan, São Paulo (IBSP), Brazil 1f (INPA5036) - (Zhang & Maddison, 2012c)

Taxonomic References

Soesilarishius ruizi Zhang & Maddison, 2012c: 27, f. 109-114 (Dmf) Original description

Soesilarishius ruizi Zhang & Maddison, 2015: 61, f. 275-280 (mf)

Soesilarishius ruizi Prószyński, 2017b: 80, f. 34J (mf)

Rhyphelia ruizi Nobre & Ruiz, 2024: 474 (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

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

Zhang, J. X. & Maddison, W. P. (2012c). New euophryine jumping spiders from Central and South America (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae). Zootaxa 3578: 1-35. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3578.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Zhang, J. X. & Maddison, W. P. (2015). Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny. Zootaxa 3938(1): 1-147. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1 -- 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
2017-09-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b
2015-04-28	New taxonomic reference entry	Zhang & Maddison, 2015
2014-09-14	Species distribution update	Courtial et al., 2014	Old value