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Genus: Habrocestum Simon, 1876 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Habrocestum egaeum Metzner, 1999

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033560

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Described:

Distribution: Greece (Islands, Crete), Turkey

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Karlsruhe (SMNK), Germany m (ARA 02185) - (Metzner, 1999)
Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany 5m 1f 1j (60609, ex coll. Wunderlich) - (Metzner, 1999)
Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 1m 1f (ARTO 27941-27942, ex coll. Senglet) - (Metzner, 1999)

Taxonomic References

Habrocestum egaeum Metzner, 1999: 63, f. 28a-m (Dmf) Original description

Habrocestum egaeum Prószyński, 2003: 68, f. 250-251 (f)

Habrocestum egaeum Murphy in Logunov, 2022a: 82, f. 7 (mf)

References

Logunov, D. V. (2022a). John Alan Murphy (1922–2021) and his contribution to arachnology. Arachnology 19(Special Issue): 77-103. doi: 10.13156/arac.2022.19.sp1.77 -- Show included taxa

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

Prószyński, J. (2003). Salticidae (Araneae) of the Levant. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 53: 1-180. -- 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
2022-06-14	New taxonomic reference entry	Logunov, 2022a
2015-07-13	Species distribution update	Logunov, 2015a	Old value