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Genus: Mago O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Mago australis Mello-Leitão, 1917

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Distribution: Brazil

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026)

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Holotype: m (lost) - (Galiano, 1980b)
Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Mago australis Mello-Leitão, 1917, (01163); 1 f (probably destroyed by the fire 2018) -

Taxonomic References

Mago australis Mello-Leitão, 1917c: 130, f. 10, 21 (Dm) Original description

Mago australis Galiano, 1968c: 344 (type lost, not identifiable, species inquirenda, taken as nomen dubium by Platnick)

References

Galiano, M. E. (1968c). Revision de los géneros Acragas, Amycus, Encolpius, Hypaeus, Mago y Noegus (Salticidae, Araneae). Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (Ent.) 2: 267-360. -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1917c). Aranhas novas ou pouco conhecidas de Thomisidas e Salticidas brasileiras. Archivos da Escola Superior de Agricultura e Medicina Veterinaria, Rio de Janeiro 1: 117-153, 2 pl. -- 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.

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