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Genus: Cytaea Keyserling, 1882 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Cytaea piscula (L. Koch, 1867)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033058

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Described:

Distribution: Australia (New South Wales), Samoa

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019) m (no number) potentially lost -

Taxonomic References

Attus pisculus L. Koch, 1867b: 224 (Dm) Original description

Thorellia piscula Keyserling, 1882: 1356, pl. 115, f. 3-4 (Dmf)

Saitis piscula Rainbow, 1911: 287

Cytaea piscula Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998: 152, f. 1-4 (m)

References

Berry, J. W., Beatty, J. A. & Prószyński, J. (1998). Salticidae of the Pacific Islands. III. Distribution of seven genera with descriptions of nineteen new species and two new genera. Journal of Arachnology 26: 149-189. -- Show included taxa

Keyserling, E. (1882). Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet [Erster Theil, Lieferung 29-30]. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg, 1325-1420, pl. 113-120. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.121660 -- Show included taxa

Koch, L. (1867b). Beschreibungen neuer Arachniden und Myriapoden. II. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 17: 173-250. -- Show included taxa

Rainbow, W. J. (1911). A census of Australian Araneidae. Records of the Australian Museum 9(2): 107-319. doi: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.9.1911.928 -- 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]

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