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

Myrmarachne angusta (Thorell, 1877)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034728

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Described:

Distribution: China to Indonesia (Sulawesi)

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

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Taxonomic References

Salticus angusta Thorell, 1877b: 553 (Dm) Original description

Myrmarachne angusta Simon, 1901a: 503

Myrmarachne annamita Żabka, 1985: 243, f. 306-313 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034729]

Myrmarachne annamita Zhang, Song & Zhu, 1992: 2, f. 3.1-6 (mf)

Myrmarachne annamita Peng et al., 1993: 130, f. 430-439 (mf)

Myrmarachne annamita Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 535, f. 303O-P, 304G-H, 327K (mf)

Myrmarachne annamita Yin et al., 2012: 1405, f. 763a-j (mf)

Myrmarachne angusta Yamasaki, 2012: 155, f. 2-12 (mf, S of Myrmarachne annamita)

Myrmarachne annamita Peng, 2020: 233, f. 159a-j (mf)

References

Peng, X. J., Xie, L. P., Xiao, X. Q. & Yin, C. M. (1993). Salticids in China (Arachnida: Araneae). Hunan Normal University Press, 270 pp. -- Show included taxa

Peng, X. J. (2020). Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 53, Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae. Science Press, Beijing, 612 pp. -- 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

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1877b). Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. I. Ragni di Selebes raccolti nel 1874 dal Dott. O. Beccari. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 10: 341-637. -- Show included taxa

Yamasaki, T. (2012). Taxonomy of the genus Myrmarachne of Sulawesi, based on the Thorell's types and additional specimens (Araneae, Salticidae). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 104: 153-180. -- Show included taxa

Yin, C. M., Peng, X. J., Yan, H. M., Bao, Y. H., Xu, X., Tang, G., Zhou, Q. S. & Liu, P. (2012). Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China. Hunan Science and Technology Press Changsha, 1590 pp. -- Show included taxa

Żabka, M. (1985). Systematic and zoogeographic study on the family Salticidae (Araneae) from Viet-Nam. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 39: 197-485. -- Show included taxa

Zhang, Y. Q., Song, D. X. & Zhu, M. S. (1992). Notes on a new and eight newly recorded species of jumping spiders in Guangxi, China (Araneae: Salticidae). Journal of the Guangxi Agricultural College 11(4): 1-6. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

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
2020-07-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Peng, 2020