Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0101] Back

Gen. Evarcha Simon, 1902 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02950 ]
N.B.: the synonymy of this genus with Pellenes Simon, 1876 (Lowrie & Gertsch, 1955: 10) has not been accepted by subsequent workers; split into several genera by Prószyński, 2018b (leaving 15 species in Evarcha s. lat., listed as "Evarcha [?]"); the genera Evacin Prószyński, 2018b: 141 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06014] (type Evarcha kochi Simon, 1902), Evalba Prószyński, 2018b: 148 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06015] (type Hasarius albarius L. Koch, 1878), Evaneg Prószyński, 2018b: 149 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06016] (type Evarcha negevensis Prószyński, 2000) and Evawes Prószyński, 2018b: 152 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:06017] (type Salticus patagiatus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) are not accepted here per Kropf et al., 2019: 445; Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2021: 2770 agree with Prószyński, 2018b that Evarcha should be split, but the "division supported by our analysis is different from what he chose".
Status: accepted
Last updated
2024-02-21
Described in
Simon, 1902a: 397 (type Araneus falcatus Clerck, 1757; gender feminine)
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Species counts
Counts Status
93accepted
10synonym
1nomen dubium
1homonym replaced
Reference

Simon, E. (1902a). Etudes arachnologiques. 32e Mémoire. LI. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Salticidae (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 71(1-2): 389-421. download pdf

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