World Spider Catalog

Genus: Euophrys C. L. Koch, 1834 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Euophrys falciger Wesołowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:046809

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Described:

Distribution: South Africa

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa m (2010/2717) - (Wesołowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014)
Paratype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa 2f (2010/2718) - (Wesołowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014)

Taxonomic References

Euophrys falciger Wesołowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014: 15, f. 40-46 (Dmf) Original description

Euophrys falciger Prószyński, Lissner & Schäfer, 2018: 37, f. 10H, 16I-J (mf)

Euophrys falciger Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025b: 9, f. 1-3 (mf)

References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Van der Walt, V., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2025b). The Salticidae of South Africa. Part 2 (E-Ha). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 65 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15266589 -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J., Lissner, J. & Schäfer, M. (2018). Taxonomic survey of the genera Euophrys, Pseudeuophrys and Talavera, with description of Euochin gen. n. (Araneae: Salticidae) and with proposals of a new research protocol. Ecologica Montenegrina 18: 26-74. doi: 10.37828/em.2018.18.4 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W., Azarkina, G. N. & Russell-Smith, A. (2014). Euophryine jumping spiders of the Afrotropical Region – new taxa and a checklist (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae). Zootaxa 3789(1): 1-72. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3789.1 -- 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
2025-04-24	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025b
2018-07-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, Lissner & Schäfer, 2018
2014-08-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014
2014-08-07	New species inserted	Wesołowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014