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Genus: Myrmarachne MacLeay, 1839 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Myrmarachne exultans Caporiacco, 1949

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Described:

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Distribution: Kenya

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

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Syntype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy 3j (641) - (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
Syntype: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Verona (MCSNV), Italy 1f (Di Caporiacco 117) - (Ballarin, Salmaso & Latella, 2020)

Taxonomic References

Myrmarachne exultans Caporiacco, 1949a: 462, f. 83 (Df) Original description

Myrmarachne exultans Wanless, 1978a: 126 (type not found, not identifiable, incertae sedis, taken as nomen dubium by Platnick)

References

Caporiacco, L. di (1949a). Aracnidi della colonia del Kenya raccolti da Toschi e Meneghetti negli anni 1944-1946. Commentationes Pontificia Academia Scientiarum 13: 309-492. -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. (1978a). A revision of the spider genera Belippo and Myrmarachne (Araneae: Salticidae) in the Ethiopian region. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 33(1): 1-139. doi: 10.5962/p.28732 -- 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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