Taxon details

Family: Salticidae / Genus: Dendryphantes

Dendryphantes purcelli G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2025-04-21
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033115]
  • Distribution: St. Helena, South Africa, Lesotho
Type deposit provide information
  • Syntype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; 2m 2f (Peckham & Peckham, 1903)
Taxonomic references
Dendryphantes purcellii Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 206, pl. 24, f. 11 (Dmf).
Dendryphantes purcelli Clark & Benoit, 1977: 101, f. 44a-d (mf).
Dendryphantes purcelli Haddad & Wesołowska, 2011: 60, f. 9-10, 24-27 (mf).
Dendryphantes purcelli Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a: 57, f. 1-8 (mf).
References

Clark, D. J. & Benoit, P. L. G. (1977). Fam. Salticidae. In: La faune terrestre de l'île de Sainte-Hélène IV. Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques (Zool.-Ser. 8°) 220: 87-103. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Van der Walt, V., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2025a). The Salticidae of South Africa. Part 1 (A-Den). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 63 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.15222559 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Haddad, C. R. & Wesołowska, W. (2011). New species and new records of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from central South Africa. African Invertebrates 52(1): 51-134. doi:10.5733/afin.052.0105 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1903). New species of the family Attidae from South Africa, with notes on the distribution of the genera found in the Ethiopian region. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 14(1): 173-278, pl. 19-29. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Metzner, H. (2019). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2016). Monograph of Salticidae (Araneae) of the World 1995-2015. Part II. Global Species Database of Salticidae (Araneae). Version October 30th, 2016, online at http://www.salticidae.pl. download pdf

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2025-04-21 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a n/a
2014-09-29 Species distribution update Wesołowska & Haddad, 2014 n/a (Old value)