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Genus: Tacuna G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Tacuna delecta G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036440

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Described:

Distribution: Brazil, Argentina

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

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Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Partona modesta Mello-Leitão, 1943, (41397); 1 m 4 j (destroyed by the fire 2018) -

Taxonomic References

Tacuna delecta Peckham & Peckham, 1901c: 228, pl. 2, f. 4 (Dm) Original description

Partona delecta Simon, 1903a: 1055

Partona modesta Mello-Leitão, 1943a: 228, f. 55 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064071]

Tacuna delecta Galiano, 1981a: 12 (S of Partona modesta)

Tacuna delecta Galiano, 1995a: 114, f. 1-4, 9-13, 24-26, 28 (m, Df)

References

Galiano, M. E. (1981a). Catalogo de los especimenes tipicos de Salticidae (Araneae) descriptos por Candido F. de Mello-Leitão. Segunda parte. Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (Secc. C) 39: 11-17. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1995a). El género Tacuna (Araneae, Salticidae). Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales, Sección C 50: 111-120. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1943a). Catálogo das aranhas do Rio Grande do Sul. Arquivos do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro 37: 147-245, 24 pls. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1901c). Pellenes and some other genera of the family Attidae. Bulletin of the Wisconsin Natural History Society (N.S.) 1(4): 195-233, pl. 1-2. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1903a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 669-1080. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- 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]

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