Synemosyna formica Hentz, 1846

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Described:


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  • Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) Janus gibberosus C. L. Koch, 1846, (1545) -
Taxonomic References
Synemosyna formica Hentz, 1846: 368, pl. 22, f. 18 (Df) Original description
Janus gibberosus C. L. Koch, 1846: vol. 13: 21, f. 1091 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:054353]
Synemosyna formica Peckham & Peckham, 1883: 30, pl. 3, f. 23 (f, Dm)
Synemosyna formica Peckham & Peckham, 1888: 93, pl. 6, f. 70 (mf, S of Janus gibberosus)
Synemosyna formica Emerton, 1891: 243, pl. 21, f. 5 (mf)
Synemosyna formica Peckham & Peckham, 1892: 77, pl. 6, f. 4 (mf)
Synemosyna formica Simon, 1901a: 512, f. 612 (m)
Synemosyna formica Emerton, 1902: 64, f. 163-164 (mf)
Synemosyna formica Peckham & Peckham, 1909: 366, pl. 50, f. 1 (mf)
Synemosyna formica Comstock, 1912: 672, f. 743-744, 747
Myrmecium rubrum Mello-Leitão, 1932b: 150 (possible senior S, see Synemosyna rubra)
Synemosyna lunata Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944: 215 (possible senior S, see Synemosyna lunata)
Synemosyna formica Chickering, 1944: 208, f. 136-139 (mf)
Synemosyna formica Kaston, 1948: 448, f. 1609-1610, 1623-24 (mf)
Synemosyna formica Galiano, 1966a: 357, f. 1-4, 36-37, 50-51, 62 (mf)
Synemosyna formica Oehler, 1980: 5, f. 1-4 (m)
Synemosyna formica Prószyński, 2017b: 61, f. 27D (mf)
References

Chamberlin, R. V. & Ivie, W. (1944). Spiders of the Georgia region of North America. Bulletin of the University of Utah 35(9): 1-267. -- Show included taxa

Chickering, A. M. (1944). The Salticidae of Michigan. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters 29: 139-222. -- Show included taxa

Comstock, J. H. (1912). The spider book. A manual for the study of the spiders and their near relatives, the scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whipscorpions, harvestmen and other members of the class Arachnida, found in America north of Mexico, with analytical keys for their classification and popular accounts of their habits. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City/New York, 721 pp. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.3163 -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1891). New England spiders of the family Attidae. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 8: 220-252, pl. 16-21. -- Show included taxa

Emerton, J. H. (1902). The common spiders of the United States. Ginn & Company Publ., Boston & London, 225 pp. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.5617 -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1966a). Salticidae (Araneae) formiciformes V. Revisión del género Synemosyna Hentz, 1846. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (Ent.) 1: 339-380. -- Show included taxa

Hentz, N. M. (1846). Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston Journal of Natural History 5(3): 352-370, pl. 21-22. -- Show included taxa

Kaston, B. J. (1948). Spiders of Connecticut. Bulletin of the Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey 70: 1-874. -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1846). Die Arachniden. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, Dreizehnter Band, pp. 1-234, pl. 433-468 (f. 1078-1271); Vierzehnter Band, pp. 1-88, pl. 467-480 (f. 1272-1342). doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.43744 [[for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b]] -- Show included taxa

Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1932b). Notas sobre o genero Myrmecium. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 4: 149-160. -- Show included taxa

Oehler, C. M. (1980). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in the Cincinnati region of Ohio, including Butler, Clermont, Hamilton, and Warren Counties. Ohio Biological Survey Notes 13: 1-36. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1883). Descriptions of new or little known spiders of the family Attidae from various parts of the United States of North America. Milwaukee, 35 pp., 3 pls. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.136491 -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1888). Attidae of North America. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 7: 1-104, pl. 1-6. -- Show included taxa

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

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1909). Revision of the Attidae of North America. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 16(1, 5): 355-646, pl. 29-51. -- 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]

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Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2017-09-21 New taxonomic reference entry Prószyński, 2017b

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