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

Myrmarachne providens (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049602

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Described:

Distribution: Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka

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

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Taxonomic References

Salticus providens Peckham & Peckham, 1892: 34, pl. 3, f. 3 (Dmf) Original description

Myrmarachne providens Simon, 1901a: 500

Myrmarachne providens Prószyński, 2017b: 101 (removed from S of Myrmarachne melanocephala, rejecting Edwards & Benjamin, 2009: 5; species inquirenda)

References

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1892). Ant-like spiders of the family Attidae. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2(1): 1-84, pl. 1-7. -- 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

Simon, E. (1901a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 381-668. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[last page with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- 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	Comment
2020-03-05	Species distribution update	Bonnet, 1957	Old value
2017-09-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b
2017-09-17	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon		Old value
2017-09-17	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon		Old value
2017-09-17	Species updated	Prószyński, 2017b	Old value	Removed synonymy