Depreissia myrmex Lessert, 1942

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Described:


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  • Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium m (11839, 16476) - (Lessert, 1942)
Taxonomic References
Depreissia myrmex Lessert, 1942: 11, f. 6-10 (Dm) Original description
Depreissia myrmex Wesołowska, 1997: 715, f. 1-5 (m)
Depreissia myrmex Szűts & Wesołowska, 2003: 345, f. 2-5 (m)
Depreissia myrmex Maddison et al., 2016: 7, f. 2-7, 10 (m)
Depreissia myrmex Prószyński, 2017b: 129, f. 56N (m)
Depreissia myrmex Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 20, f. 13A-D (m, Df)
References

Lessert, R. de (1942). Araignées myrmecomorph du Congo Belge. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 49: 7-13. -- Show included taxa

Maddison, W. P., Maddison, D. R., Zhang, J. X. & Szűts, T. (2016). Phylogenetic placement of the unusual jumping spider Depreissia Lessert, and a new synapomorphy uniting Hisponinae and Salticinae (Araneae, Salticidae). ZooKeys 549: 1-12. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.549.6171 -- 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

Szűts, T. & Wesołowska, W. (2003). Notes on Depreissia myrmex (Araneae: Salticidae). Folia Entomologica Hungarica 64: 345-347. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (1997). A redescription of ant-like jumping spider Depreissia myrmex Lessert, 1942 (Araneae: Salticidae). Genus 8: 715-717. -- Show included taxa

Wiśniewski, K. & Wesołowska, W. (2024). Jumping spiders (Salticidae) of Uganda – revised list, new species and distributional data. European Journal of Taxonomy 952: 1-171. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2024.952.2647 -- 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
2024-09-06 New taxonomic reference entry Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-09-06 First description of female Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 Old value
2024-09-06 Species distribution update Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 Old value
2017-09-11 New taxonomic reference entry Prószyński, 2017b
2016-01-27 New taxonomic reference entry Maddison et al., 2016

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