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Genus: Viribestus Zhang & Maddison, 2012 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Viribestus suyanensis Zhang & Maddison, 2012

SPECIES | ACCEPTED | TYPE SPECIES

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:045476

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Described:

Distribution: Indonesia (New Guinea), Papua New Guinea

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Beaty Biodiversity Museum (BBM), Spencer Entomological Museum of the University of British Columbia (UBC–SEM), Vancouver, Canada m (AR00110) - (Zhang & Maddison, 2012b)

Taxonomic References

Viribestus suyanensis Zhang & Maddison, 2012b: 60, f. 282-289 (Dm) Original description

Viribestus suyanensis Zhang & Maddison, 2015: 88, f. 630-633, 908-909 (m)

Viribestus suyanensis Szűts et al., 2020: 553, f. 109-116, 119 (m)

References

Szűts, T., Zhang, J. X., Gallé-Szpisjak, N. & De Bakker, D. (2020). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Papua New Guinean Mount Wilhelm and surrounding mountains. In: Robillard, T., Legendre, F., Villemant, C. & Leponce, M. (eds.) Insects of Mount Wilhelm, Papua New Guinea - volume 2. Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle 214: 521-555. -- Show included taxa

Zhang, J. X. & Maddison, W. P. (2012b). New euophryine jumping spiders from Papua New Guinea (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae). Zootaxa 3491: 1-74. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3491.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Zhang, J. X. & Maddison, W. P. (2015). Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny. Zootaxa 3938(1): 1-147. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1 -- 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
2020-11-19	New taxonomic reference entry	Szűts et al., 2020
2020-11-19	Species distribution update	Szűts et al., 2020	Old value
2015-04-28	New taxonomic reference entry	Zhang & Maddison, 2015