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Genus: Rishaschia Makhan, 2006 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Rishaschia mandibularis (Taczanowski, 1871)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:051102

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Distribution: Ecuador, Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana

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Lectotype: Polska Akademia Nauk (PAN), Łomna, Poland m [f paralectotype mismatched] - (Ruiz & Rego, 2019)
Syntype: Polska Akademia Nauk (PAN), Łomna, Poland 2m 1j of Attus cabanisii - (Ruiz & Rego, 2019)
Holotype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy m of Asaracus roeweri - (Ruiz & Rego, 2019)
Holotype: National Zoological Collection of Suriname, University of Suriname, Paramaribo, Suriname m of Rishaschia amrishi - (Ruiz & Rego, 2019)
Syntype: Museum and Institute of Zoology (MIZ), Polish Academy of Science (PAN), Warsaw, Poland Attus mandibularis Taczanowski, 1871 - (Prószyński, 1971e)

Taxonomic References

Attus mandibularis Taczanowski, 1871: 49 (Dmf) Original description

Attus cabanisii Taczanowski, 1872: 66 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:064145]

Asaracus röweri Caporiacco, 1947a: 32 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032330]

Asaracus röweri Caporiacco, 1948a: 715, f. 145-146 (m)

Asaracus roeweri Roewer, 1955c: 1068

Attus mandibularis Roewer, 1955c: 1426 (nicht zu deuten = nomen dubium)

Attus cabanisii Roewer, 1955c: 1421 (nicht zu deuten = nomen dubium)

Rishaschia amrishi Makhan, 2006a: 11, f. 11-17 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040881]

Rishaschia amrishi Edwards, 2015: 60, f. 26A-G (mf; figures as Rishaschia mandibularis)

Rishaschia mandibularis Prószyński, 2017b: 61, f. 28H1 (mf)

Rishaschia mandibularis Ruiz & Rego, 2019: 77, f. 1a-d, 2a-f, 3a-f, 4a-l (mf, T from Salticus, removed from nomen dubium, S of Salticus cabanisi [removed from nomen dubium], of Asaracus roeweri and of Rishaschia amrishi)

References

Caporiacco, L. di (1947a). Diagnosi preliminari de specie nuove di aracnidi della Guiana Brittanica raccolte dai professori Beccari e Romiti. Monitore Zoologico Italiano 56: 20-34. -- Show included taxa

Caporiacco, L. di (1948a). Arachnida of British Guiana collected in 1931 and 1936 by Professors Beccari and Romiti. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 118(3): 607-747. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1948.tb00402.x -- Show included taxa

Edwards, G. B. (2015). Freyinae, a major new subfamily of Neotropical jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4036(1): 1-87. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4036.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Makhan, D. (2006a). Rishaschia gen. nov. and new species of Salticidae from Suriname (Araneae). Calodema 5: 9-18. -- 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

Roewer, C. F. (1955c). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1751 pp. -- Show included taxa

Ruiz, G. R. S. & Rego, F. N. A. A. (2019). Revision of the spider genus Rishaschia Makhan, 2006 (Araneae: Salticidae). Journal of Arachnology 47(1): 77-83. doi: 10.1636/0161-8202-47.1.77 -- Show included taxa

Taczanowski, L. (1871). Les aranéides de la Guyane française. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 8: 32-132, pl. 3-4. -- Show included taxa

Taczanowski, L. (1872). Les aranéides de la Guyane française. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 9: 64-112, pl. 3-4. [pdf includes Taczanowski, 1873] -- 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.

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2019-05-03	Species synonymy	Ruiz & Rego, 2019		Rishaschia roeweri synonymized with Rishaschia mandibularis
2019-05-03	Species synonymy	Ruiz & Rego, 2019		Rishaschia cabanisi synonymized with Rishaschia mandibularis
2019-05-03	Species synonymy	Ruiz & Rego, 2019		Rishaschia amrishi synonymized with Rishaschia mandibularis
2019-05-03	Species distribution update	Ruiz & Rego, 2019	Old value
2019-05-03	New taxonomic reference entry	Ruiz & Rego, 2019
2019-05-03	Species transferred to new genus	Ruiz & Rego, 2019		Species transferred from Salticus to Rishaschia
2019-05-03	Species updated	Ruiz & Rego, 2019	Old value	New status
2019-05-03	New taxonomic reference entry	Roewer, 1955c
2019-05-03	New taxonomic reference entry	Taczanowski, 1871