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Genus: Scopocira Simon, 1900 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Scopocira atypica Mello-Leitão, 1922

SPECIES | NOMEN DUBIUM

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036099

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Described:

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Distribution: Brazil

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026)

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Holotype: m (lost) - (Galiano, 1981a)
Holotype: Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MNRJ), Brazil (database excerpt, August 2019) Scopocira atypica Mello-Leitão, 1922, (01380); 1 m (probably destroyed by the fire 2018) -

Taxonomic References

Scopocira atypica Mello-Leitão, 1922a: 217 (Dm) Original description

References

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1922a). Quelques araignées nouvelles ou peu connues du Bresil. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 91: 209-228. -- 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
2014-12-10	Taxon is nomen dubium	Costa & Ruiz, 2014		Scopocira atypica Mello-Leitão, 1922 declared a nomen dubium