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Genus: Chalcoscirtus Bertkau, 1880 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Chalcoscirtus glacialis Caporiacco, 1935

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032659

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Described:

Distribution: Russia (Central Asia to Far East), Kazakhstan, Pakistan, India, Mongolia, Alaska, Canada

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

Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy 1j (376) of Euophrys elongata - (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
Syntype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy 1f (375) - (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
Syntype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy 4m (371-374) of Phintella micans - (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)

Taxonomic References

Chalcoscirtus glacialis Caporiacco, 1935b: 197, pl. 5, f. 1 (Dmf) Original description

Evophrys elongata Caporiacco, 1935b: 204, pl. 6, f. 2 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063668]

Phintella micans Caporiacco, 1935b: 201, pl. 3, f. 17 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063670]

Chalcoscirtus glacialis Prószyński, 1976: 185, f. 364-366 (f)

Chalcoscirtus micans Prószyński, 1982: 277, f. 12-17 (m, Df, T from Phintella)

Chalcoscirtus micans Prószyński, 1984a: 42 (m)

Euophrys elongata Prószyński, 1984a: 42 (f)

Chalcoscirtus glacialis Marusik, 1991a: 22, f. 2.1-2, 3.1-2 (mf, S of Chalcoscirtus micans)

Chalcoscirtus glacialis Logunov & Marusik, 1999a: 225 (S of Euophrys elongata)

References

Caporiacco, L. di (1935b). Aracnidi dell'Himalaia e del Karakoram, raccolti dalla Missione italiana al Karakoram (1929-VII). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 13: 161-263, pl. 1-7. -- Show included taxa

Logunov, D. V. & Marusik, Y. M. (1999a). A brief review of the genus Chalcoscirtus Bertkau, 1880 in the faunas of Central Asia and the Caucasus (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 7(3, 1998): 205-226. -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M. (1991a). Spider genus Chalcoscirtus (Aranei, Salticidae) from the USSR. Communication 2. Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal 70(1): 19-31. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1976). Studium systematyczno-zoogeograflczne nad rodziną Salticidae (Aranei) Regionów Palearktycznego i Nearktycznego. Wyższa Szkola Pedagogiczna Siedlcach 6: 1-260. [[pdf is made from a reprint from 1979]] -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1982). Salticidae (Araneae) from Mongolia. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 74: 273-294. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1984a). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae). Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej w Siedlcach 2: 1-177. -- 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	Old value	Comment
2020-03-05	Species distribution update	Caleb, 2019b	Old value