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Genus of spiders

Marpissa
Marpissa muscosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Marpissa
C. L. Koch, 1846
Type species
M. muscosa
(Clerck, 1757)
Species

41, see text

Synonyms
  • Hyctia Simon, 1876
  • Icidella Bösenberg & Strand, 1906
  • Roeweriella Kratochvíl, 1932

Marpissa is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1846. The name is derived from Marpissa, an ancient Greek village.

Species

As of July 2024 it contains forty-one species, found in North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, on the Polynesian Islands, and the Greater Antilles:

References

  1. ^ "Gen. Marpissa C. L. Koch, 1846". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. 2024. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2024-07-29.
  2. Barnes, R. D. (1958). "North American jumping spiders of the subfamily Marpissinae (Araneae, Salticidae)". American Museum Novitates (1867): 3.
  3. Yaginuma, T. (1955). "Revision of scientific names of Japanese spiders". Atypus. 8: 14.
  4. Logunov, D. V. (2009). "On Roeweriella balcanica, a mysterious species of Marpissa from the Balkan Peninsula (Araneae, Salticidae)". Arachnologische Mitteilungen. 37: 9. doi:10.5431/aramit3702.
  5. Koch, C. L. (1846). Die Arachniden. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, Dreizehnter Band, pp. , Vierzehnter Band, pp. 1-88. pp. 1–234.

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Taxon identifiers
Marpissa
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