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Genus: Euophrys C. L. Koch, 1834 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Euophrys catherinae Prószyński, 2000

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033260

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Described:

Distribution: Egypt

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: National Natural History Collections, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (HUJ), Israel f - (Prószyński, 2000)
Paratype: National Natural History Collections, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (HUJ), Israel 3f - (Prószyński, 2000)

Taxonomic References

Euophrys catherinae Prószyński, 2000: 239, f. 32-36 (Df) Original description

Euophrys catherinae Prószyński, 2003: 48, f. 158-162 (f)

Euophrys catherinae Prószyński, Lissner & Schäfer, 2018: 37, f. 12F, 22A (f)

References

Prószyński, J. (2000). On mostly new species of Salticidae (Aranei) from Levant. Arthropoda Selecta 8(4, 1999): 231-262. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2003). Salticidae (Araneae) of the Levant. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 53: 1-180. -- 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

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
2018-07-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, Lissner & Schäfer, 2018