Chalcoscirtus infimus (Simon, 1868)

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Described:

Distribution: Azores, Mediterranean, Central and south-eastern Europe, Russia (Europe), Caucasus, Iran, Kazakhstan, Central Asia


Type Repository Provide information
  • It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France -
  • Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) (Syn: Chalcoscirtus atratus) Heliophanus atratus Thorell, 1875, (4414, 4414a–b) -
Taxonomic References
Callietherus infimus Simon, 1868b: 661, pl. 7, f. 2 (Dmf) Original description
Heliophanus atratus Thorell, 1875a: 107 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032650]
Heliophanus atratus Thorell, 1875c: 180 (mf)
Calliethera infima Simon, 1876a: 75
Chalcoscirtus infimus Bertkau, 1880b: 284
Chalcoscirtus infimus Simon, 1901a: 575, 577, f. 691 (m, S of Heliophanus atratus)
Chalcoscirtus infimus Bösenberg, 1903: 414, pl. 39, f. 609 (mf)
Chalcoscirtus infimus Simon, 1937: 1184, 1254, f. 1867-1868 (mf)
Chalcoscirtus insularis Denis, 1937c: 172 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063669]
Euophrys thorelli asiatica Charitonov, 1951: 214, f. 6 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063666]
Chalcoscirtus atratus Denis, 1952e: 302, f. 1-3 (m, removed from S of Chalcoscirtus infimus [rejecting Simon, 1901a: 575, confirmed by Wunderlich, 1980c: 358], S of Chalcoscirtus insularis)
Chalcoscirtus infimus Denis, 1952e: 302, f. 4 (f)
Chalcoscirtus insularis Prószyński, 1976: 185, f. 351-352 (f)
Chalcoscirtus atratus Prószyński, 1976: 185, f. 361 (m)
Chalcoscirtus infimus Andreeva, 1976: 92, f. 130 (f)
Chalcoscirtus infimus Prószyński, 1976: 150, f. 102, 140, 353, 355-358 (mf)
Chalcoscirtus infimus Wunderlich, 1980c: 355, 358, f. 10-12 (mf, S of Chalcoscirtus atratus confirmed)
Chalcoscirtus infimus Flanczewska, 1981: 192, f. 4-6 (m)
Chalcoscirtus infimus Marusik, 1990: 51, f. 1.1-3 (m)
Chalcoscirtus asiaticus Marusik, 1990: 53, f. 4.1-2 (Dm, f, elevated from subspecies of Euophrys thorelli, T from Euophrys, S of Chalcoscirtus ansobicus [revalidated by Logunov & Marusik, 1999a: 219])
Chalcoscirtus infimus Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 496, f. 1325 (mf)
Chalcoscirtus infimus Bauchhenss, 1993: 44, f. 1b, 2b (m)
Chalcoscirtus infimus Noflatscher, 1993: 283, f. 9-11 (mf)
Chalcoscirtus infimus Baldacchino et al., 1993: 45, f. 2a-b (mf)
Chalcoscirtus infimus Fuhn & Gherasim, 1995: 84, f. 35A-G (mf)
Chalcoscirtus pauper Wesołowska, 1996: 26, f. 10C-D (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063672]
Chalcoscirtus infimus Metzner, 1999: 45, f. 11a-m (mf)
Chalcoscirtus infimus Logunov & Marusik, 1999a: 208, f. 1-9, 24-25, 32-35 (mf, S of Chalcoscirtus asiaticus and C. pauper)
Chalcoscirtus infimus Prószyński, 2003: 44, f. 136-137, 142-144 (mf)
Chalcoscirtus infimus Trotta, 2005: 171, f. 388-389 (mf)
Chalcoscirtus infimus Lecigne, 2011: 42, f. P27-29 (m)
Chalcoscirtus infimus Zhang & Maddison, 2015: 75, f. 458-462 (mf)
Chalcoscirtus infimus Prószyński, 2017b: 77, f. 33A-B, 39A (mf)
Chalcoscirtus infimus Prószyński, Lissner & Schäfer, 2018: 32, f. 3K,Q-S, 4M (mf)
Chalcoscirtus infimus Lecigne, Moutaouakil & Lips, 2025: 142, f. 88A (f)
References

Andreeva, E. M. (1976). Pauki Tajikistana. Dushanbe, 196 pp. -- Show included taxa

Baldacchino, A. E., Dandria, D., Lanfranco, E. & Schembri, P. J. (1993). Records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Maltese Islands (central Mediterranean). The Central Mediterranean Naturalist 2(2): 37-59. -- Show included taxa

Bauchhenss, E. (1993). Chalcoscirtus nigritus - neu für Mitteleuropa (Araneae: Salticidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 5: 43-47. doi: 10.5431/aramit0507 -- Show included taxa

Bertkau, P. (1880b). Verzeichniss der bisher bei Bonn beobachteten Spinnen. Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens 37: 215-343, pl. 6, Correspondenzblatt 154-161, Sitzungsberichte 282-285. -- Show included taxa

Bösenberg, W. (1903). Die Spinnen Deutschlands. V, VI. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 14(5-6): 385-465, pl. 37-43. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.6508 -- Show included taxa

Charitonov, D. E. (1951). Pauki i senokostsy. Moscow, pp. 209-216. -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1937c). Elements d'une faune arachnologique de l'Ile de Port-Cros (Var). Annales de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulon 21: 169-174. -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1952e). Quelques araignées d'Ibiza (Baléares). Vie et Milieu 3: 301-303. -- Show included taxa

Flanczewska, E. (1981). Remarks on Salticidae (Aranei) of Bulgaria. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 36: 187-228. -- Show included taxa

Fuhn, I. E. & Gherasim, V. F. (1995). Familia Salticidae. Fauna Romaniei (Arachnida) 5(5): 1-301. -- Show included taxa

Heimer, S. & Nentwig, W. (1991). Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp. -- Show included taxa

Lecigne, S. (2011). Inventaire aranéologique dans la Province d'Izmir (Turquie) (Arachnida, Araneae). Le bulletin d'Arthropoda 46(2): 5-83. -- Show included taxa

Lecigne, S., Moutaouakil, S. & Lips, J. (2025). Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae) – second note. On new species and new records from caves and miscellaneous terrestrial ecosystems. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 40(1, supplement): 1-184. -- 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. (1990). Spider genus Chalcoscirtus (Aranei, Salticidae) from the USSR: Communication 1. Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal 69(6): 45-57. -- Show included taxa

Metzner, H. (1999). Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279. -- Show included taxa

Noflatscher, M. T. (1993). Beiträge zur Spinnenfauna Südtirols - IV: Epigäische Spinnen am Vinschgauer Sonnenberg (Arachnida: Aranei). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 80: 273-294. -- 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. (2003). Salticidae (Araneae) of the Levant. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 53: 1-180. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2017b). Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 12: 1-133. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.12.1 -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J., Lissner, J. & Schäfer, M. (2018). Taxonomic survey of the genera Euophrys, Pseudeuophrys and Talavera, with description of Euochin gen. n. (Araneae: Salticidae) and with proposals of a new research protocol. Ecologica Montenegrina 18: 26-74. doi: 10.37828/em.2018.18.4 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1868b). Monographie des espèces européennes de la famille des Attides (Attidae Sundewall. - Saltigradae Latreille). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (4) 8: 11-72, 529-726, pl. 5-7. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1876a). Les arachnides de France. Tome troisième. Roret, Paris, 364 pp., pl. 9-13. -- Show included taxa

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

Simon, E. (1937). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 5e et derniére partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 979-1298. -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1875a). Diagnoses Aranearum Europaearum aliquot novarum. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 18: 81-108. -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1875c). Descriptions of several European and North African spiders. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 13(5): 1-204. -- Show included taxa

Trotta, A. (2005). Introduzione al ragni italiani (Arachnida Araneae). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 83: 3-178. doi: 10.4081/memorieSEI.2004.3 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (1996). New data on the jumping spiders of Turkmenistan (Aranei Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 5(1/2): 17-53. -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (1980c). Zur Gattung Chalcoscirtus Bertkau 1880, mit einer Neubeschreibung (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 60(5/6, 1979): 355-358. -- Show included taxa

Zhang, J. X. & Maddison, W. P. (2015). Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny. Zootaxa 3938(1): 1-147. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1 -- 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.

Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

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
2025-04-07 New taxonomic reference entry Lecigne, Moutaouakil & Lips, 2025
2023-03-14 Species distribution update Logunov, 2023a Old value
2022-12-15 Species distribution update Old value
2019-11-08 New taxonomic reference entry Wunderlich, 1980c
2019-11-08 Species synonymy Wunderlich, 1980c Chalcoscirtus atratus synonymized with Chalcoscirtus infimus
2018-11-19 New taxonomic reference entry Lecigne, 2011
2018-07-20 New taxonomic reference entry Prószyński, Lissner & Schäfer, 2018
2017-09-11 New taxonomic reference entry Prószyński, 2017b
2015-04-28 New taxonomic reference entry Zhang & Maddison, 2015

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