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Genus: Synemosyna Hentz, 1846 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Synemosyna aurantiaca (Mello-Leitão, 1917)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036423

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Described:

Distribution: Bolivia, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Colombia?, Trinidad?

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) f (14077, destroyed by the fire 2018) of Synemosyna claustrorum -
Syntype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) f (01003, destroyed by the fire 2018) -
Syntype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) 2m (01002, destroyed by the fire 2018) of Simonella mastigostyla -
Syntype: Museu de Zoologia da ‘Luiz de Queiroz’ (MZLQ), Piracicaba, Brazil [collection now in IBSP?] 1m 1f (A0014) of Simonella ypsilon - (Paschoal & Barros, 1983)

Taxonomic References

Simonella aurantiaca Mello-Leitão, 1917c: 138 (Df) Original description

Simonella mastigostyla Mello-Leitão, 1917c: 140, f. 2 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055591]

Simonella aurantiaca Mello-Leitão, 1933a: 58, pl. 1, f. 2 (f)

Simonella mastigostyla Mello-Leitão, 1933a: 59, pl. 1, f. 4, pl. 2, f. 8 (m, Df)

Simonella claustrorum Mello-Leitão, 1933a: 62, pl. 1, f. 6 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055590]

Simonella ypsilon Piza, 1937a: 311, pl. 1, f. 3-4, pl. 2, f. 5 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:055594]

Synemosyna aurantiaca Galiano, 1966a: 348, f. 8-11, 44-46, 49, 61 (mf, T from Simonella, S of Simonella claustrorum, S. mastigostyla and S. ypsilon)

Synemosyna aurantiaca Cutler & Müller, 1991: 174, f. 13-15 (f; likely refers to another species per Perger, Rubio & Haddad, 2021: 73)

Synemosyna aurantiaca Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018: 151, f. 131, 132A-C, 133A-B (mf)

References

Cutler, B. & Müller, H.-G. (1991). The spider genus Synemosyna in northern Colombia (Araneae: Salticidae). Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 26(3): 171-177. doi: 10.1080/01650529109360850 -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1966a). Salticidae (Araneae) formiciformes V. Revisión del género Synemosyna Hentz, 1846. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (Ent.) 1: 339-380. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1917c). Aranhas novas ou pouco conhecidas de Thomisidas e Salticidas brasileiras. Archivos da Escola Superior de Agricultura e Medicina Veterinaria, Rio de Janeiro 1: 117-153, 2 pl. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1933a). Ensaio sobre as myrmarachninas do Brasil. Boletim do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 9: 39-102. -- Show included taxa

Piza Jr., S. de T. (1937a). Novas especies de aranhas myrmecomorphas do Brasil e considerações sobre o seu mimetismo. Revista do Museu Paulista 23: 307-319. -- 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	Old value	Comment
2025-08-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Rubio, Baigorria & Scioscia, 2018
2021-05-05	Species distribution update	Perger, Rubio & Haddad, 2021	Old value