Taxon details

Family: Salticidae / Genus: Myrmarachne

Myrmarachne hesperia (Simon, 1887)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-02-04
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034796]
  • Distribution: West Africa, Equatorial Guinea (Bioko)
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium; m (126130) of Myrmarachne chelata (Wanless & Clark, 1975)
  • Lectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; m (Wanless, 1978a)
  • Syntype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany; 1f 1jf (9908824-141) of Myrmarachne insulana (Roewer, 1942b)
Taxonomic references
Salticus hesperius Simon, 1887a: 261 (Dm).
Myrmarachne hesperia Simon, 1901a: 498.
Myrmarachne insulana Roewer, 1942b: 254, pl. 19, f. 10 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034805].
Myrmarachne chelata Wanless & Clark, 1975: 294, f. 36-43 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061577].
Myrmarachne hesperia Wanless, 1978a: 46, f. 20D-E, G, J, 21A, C, H, K, 22C, F (m, S of Myrmarachne chelata).
Myrmarachne insulana Wanless, 1978a: 40, f. 19A-C, F (f).
Myrmarachne hesperia Wesołowska & Edwards, 2012: 753, f. 70-76 (mf, S of Myrmarachne insulana).
References

Roewer, C. F. (1942b). Opiliones, Pedipalpi und Araneae von Fernando Poo. 21. Beitrag zu den wissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen der Westafrika Expedition Eidmann 1939/40. Veröffentlichungen aus dem Deutschen Kolonial- und Übersee-Museum Bremen 3: 244-258. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1887a). Etudes arachnologiques. 19e Mémoire. XXVII. Arachnides recueillis à Assinie (Afrique occidentale) par MM. Chaper et Alluaud. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 7: 261-276. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1901a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 381-668. [second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts] doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. & Clark, D. J. (1975). On a collection of spiders of the family Salticidae from the Ivory Coast (Araneae). Revue Zoologique Africaine 89: 273-296. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. (1978a). A revision of the spider genera Belippo and Myrmarachne (Araneae: Salticidae) in the Ethiopian region. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 33(1): 1-139. doi:10.5962/p.28732 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Edwards, G. B. (2012). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Calabar area (SE Nigeria). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 62(4): 733-772. doi:10.3161/000345412X659786 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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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
2022-02-04 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Myrmarachne elongata Szombathy, 1915