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Genus: Eustiromastix Simon, 1902 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Eustiromastix falcatus Galiano, 1981

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033370

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Described:

Distribution: Trinidad, French Guiana, Brazil

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m - (Galiano, 1981c)
Paratype: Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM), Wisconsin's Natural History Museum, Milwaukee, USA 6m - (Galiano, 1981c)
Paratype: Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales (MACN) “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina 3m (7205) - (Galiano, 1981c)

Taxonomic References

Attus spinipes Taczanowski, 1871: 65 (f; misidentified per Edwards, 2015: 33)

Eustiromastix falcatus Galiano, 1981c: 216, f. 1-3 (Dm) Original description

Eustiromastix falcatus Edwards, 2015: 33, f. 38I-L (mf)

Eustiromastix falcatus Galvis, 2015a: 1, f. 1-5 (m)

References

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

Galiano, M. E. (1981c). Three new species of Salticidae (Araneae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 170: 216-218. -- Show included taxa

Galvis, W. (2015a). First record of the jumping spider Eustiromastix falcatus (Araneae: Salticidae) in Brazil. Peckhamia 120.1: 1-3. -- 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

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
2015-11-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Taczanowski, 1871
2015-11-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Edwards, 2015
2015-03-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Galvis, 2015a
2015-03-09	Species distribution update	Galvis, 2015a	Old value
2014-09-14	Species distribution update	Courtial et al., 2014	Old value