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Genus: Massagris Simon, 1900 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Massagris mirifica G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034510

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Described:

Distribution: South Africa

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | Salticidae Database Prószyński (2025) | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m (4132) - (Wesołowska, 1993c)
Holotype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa f (2012/1097) of Massagris contortuplicata - (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013)
Paratype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa 1f (2012/1097) of Massagris contortuplicata - (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013)
Paratype: Kwazulu-Natal Museum (NMSA), Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 1f (26418) of Massagris contortuplicata - (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013)
Paratype: National Museum, Bloemfontein (NMBA), South Africa 1f of Massagris contortuplicata - (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013)

Taxonomic References

Massagris mirificus Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 186, pl. 19, f. 1 (Dm) Original description

Massagris mirifica Wesołowska, 1993c: 137, f. 1-8 (m)

Massagris cf. honesta Maddison & Needham, 2006: 39, f. 12 (f; misidentified per Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013: 208)

Massagris contortuplicata Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013: 208, f. 89, 103-106 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:045911]

Massagris mirifica Wesołowska & Haddad, 2018: 894, f. 37, 63-64, 88-92 (mf, S of Massagris contortuplicata)

Massagris mirifica Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2026: 28, f. 1-5 (mf)

References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Van der Walt, V., Foord, S. H., Lotz, L. N. & Uys, W. (2026). The Salticidae of South Africa. Part 4 (K-Mogrus). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 70 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.20542599 -- Show included taxa

Maddison, W. P. & Needham, K. M. (2006). Lapsiines and hisponines as phylogenetically basal salticid spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 1255: 37-55. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.1255.1.4 -- 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. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (1993c). A revision of the spider genus Massagris Simon, 1900 (Araneae, Salticidae). Genus 4(2): 133-141. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Haddad, C. R. (2013). New data on the jumping spiders of South Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). African Invertebrates 54(1): 177-240. doi: 10.5733/afin.054.0111 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Haddad, C. R. (2018). Further additions to the jumping spider fauna of South Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 68(4): 879-908. doi: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2018.68.4.011 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2025). Salticidae (Araneae) Genera of the World "a management tool for developing a new system of Salticidae" - a scrollable e-Textbook. Version December 20th, 2025, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2026-06-05	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2026
2026-06-05	Type repository inserted	Wesołowska, 1993c
2018-12-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska & Haddad, 2018
2018-12-11	Species synonymy	Wesołowska & Haddad, 2018	Massagris contortuplicata synonymized with Massagris mirifica