Thiratoscirtus patagonicus Simon, 1886

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Described:

Distribution: Cameroon, Central African Rep., DR Congo, Uganda


Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m - (Galiano, 1963a)
Taxonomic References
Thiratoscirtus patagonicus Simon, 1886h: 560, f. 1 (Dm; mislabelled as "Argentina" per Prószyński, 2017b: 107 and Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 136) Original description
Theratoscirtus patagonicus Simon, 1903a: 739, f. 855-857 (m)
Theratoscirtus patagonicus Galiano, 1963a: 457, pl. 39, f. 11-14 (m)
Thiratoscirtus patagonicus Prószyński, 2017b: 107, f. 47T, 48U (mf)
Thiratoscirtus patagonicus Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 134, f. 87A-E (m, Df)
Thiratoscirtus patagonicus Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026: 50, f. 44A-B (f)
References

Galiano, M. E. (1963a). Las especies americanas de arañas de la familia Salticidae descriptas por Eugène Simon. Redescripciones basadas en los ejemplares típicos. Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (C) 23(68): 273-470. -- 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

Simon, E. (1886h). Arachnides recueillis en 1882-1883 dans la Patagonie méridionale, de Santa Cruz à Punta Arena, par M. E. Lebrun, attaché comme naturaliste à la Mission du passage de Vénus. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 11(4): 558-577. -- 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

Wesołowska, W., Russell-Smith, A. & Danflous, S. (2026). The jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from the southwestern region of Central African Republic. Zootaxa 5743(1): 1-74. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5743.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Wiśniewski, K. & Wesołowska, W. (2024). Jumping spiders (Salticidae) of Uganda – revised list, new species and distributional data. European Journal of Taxonomy 952: 1-171. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2024.952.2647 -- 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
2026-01-12 New taxonomic reference entry Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026
2026-01-12 Species distribution update Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026 Old value
2024-09-06 New taxonomic reference entry Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-09-06 Species distribution update Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 Old value
2024-09-05 Species distribution update Prószyński, 2017b Old value
2017-09-21 New taxonomic reference entry Prószyński, 2017b

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