Taxon details

Family: Salticidae / Genus: Mexcala

Mexcala caerulea (Simon, 1901)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-10-16
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032939]
  • Distribution: Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast
Type deposit provide information
  • Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; 1m 1f 2j (19974) (Clark, 1974)
Taxonomic references
Cosmophasis caerulea Simon, 1901c: 148 (Dm).
Cosmophasis tristis Berland & Millot, 1941: 319, f. 21 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056231].
Cosmophasis caerulea Clark, 1974: 14, f. 10-11 (mf, S of Cosmophasis tristis).
Mexcala caerulea Wesołowska, 2009a: 157, f. 18-29 (mf, T from Cosmophasis).
Mexcala caerulea Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 59, f. 36A-B (f).
References

Berland, L. & Millot, J. (1941). Les araignées de l'Afrique Occidentale Française I.-Les salticides. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (N.S.) 12: 297-423. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Clark, D. J. (1974). Notes on Simon's types of African Salticidae. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 3(1): 11-27. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1901c). Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 45: 141-161. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (2009a). A revision of the spider genus Mexcala Peckham et Peckham, 1902 (Araneae: Salticidae). Genus 20: 149-186. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2022). Jumping spiders from Ivory Coast collected by J.-C. Ledoux (Araneae, Salticidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 841: 1-143. doi:10.5852/ejt.2022.841.1943 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

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2022-10-16 New taxonomic reference entry Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 n/a