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

Evarcha longula (Thorell, 1881)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036658

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Described:

Distribution: New Guinea, Australia

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

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Taxonomic References

Marptusa longula Thorell, 1881: 454 (Dm) Original description

Trite longula Simon, 1903a: 829

Trite longula Chrysanthus, 1968: 59, f. 43-45 (m)

Trite longula Davies & Żabka, 1989: 250, pl. 54 (m, Df, considered misplaced)

Evarcha longula Richardson, 2016: 525, f. 87-93, 95-100 (Tmf from Trite)

Evarcha longula Prószyński, 2017b: 53, f. 24M (f)

Evawes longula Prószyński, 2018b: 153, f. 3L, 14C (mf)

References

Chrysanthus, P. (1968). Spiders from south New Guinea X. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 111: 49-74. -- Show included taxa

Davies, V. T. & Żabka, M. (1989). Illustrated keys to the genera of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 27(2): 189-266. -- 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

Prószyński, J. (2018b). Review of genera Evarcha and Nigorella, with comments on Emertonius, Padilothorax [sic], Stagetillus, and description of five new genera and two new species (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 16: 130-179. doi: 10.37828/em.2018.16.12 -- Show included taxa

Richardson, B. J. (2016). New genera, new species and redescriptions of Australian jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4114(5): 501-560. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4114.5.1 -- 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

Thorell, T. (1881). Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 17: 1-720. -- 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
2019-01-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2018b
2017-09-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b
2016-06-10	Species distribution update	Richardson, 2016	Old value
2016-06-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Richardson, 2016
2016-06-10	Species transferred to new genus	Richardson, 2016		Species transferred from Trite to Evarcha