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

Evarcha alba (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036733

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Described:

Distribution: Zimbabwe, South Africa

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

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Holotype: f - (Peckham & Peckham, 1903)

Taxonomic References

Viciria alba Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 234, pl. 26, f. 8 (Df) Original description

Viciria alba Lessert, 1925b: 358, f. 18 (f)

Evacin alba Prószyński, 2018b: 143, f. 7S-7S1 (f, T from Viciria)

Evarcha alba Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025b: 23, f. 1-4 (f)

References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Van der Walt, V., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2025b). The Salticidae of South Africa. Part 2 (E-Ha). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 65 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15266589 -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1925b). Araignées du sud de l'Afrique (suite). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 32: 323-365. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.117932 -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1903). New species of the family Attidae from South Africa, with notes on the distribution of the genera found in the Ethiopian region. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 14(1): 173-278, pl. 19-29. -- 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

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.

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2025-04-24	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025b
2019-01-19	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2018b
2019-01-19	Species transferred to new genus	Prószyński, 2018b	Species transferred from Viciria to Evarcha