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Genus: Hermotimus Simon, 1903 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Hermotimus coriaceus Simon, 1903

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033906

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Described:

Distribution: Gabon, Cameroon, Central African Rep., Uganda

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

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Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 1m 1f (20238) - (Clark, 1974)

Taxonomic References

Hermotimus coriaceus Simon, 1903a: 762, f. 901-903

Hermotimus coriaceus Simon, 1903e: 120 (Dmf) Original description

Hermotimus coriaceus Prószyński, 1987: 43 (f)

Hermotimus coriaceus Szűts, 2007: 87, f. 7-15 (mf)

Hermotimus coriaceus Prószyński, 2017b: 112, f. 49A (mf)

Hermotimus coriaceus Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 42, f. 26A-E, 27A-C (m)

References

Prószyński, J. (1987). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae 2. Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoly Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej Siedlcach, 172 pp. -- 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

Simon, E. (1903a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 669-1080. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1903e). Arachnides de la Guinée espagnole. Memorias de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 1(3): 65-124. -- Show included taxa

Szűts, T. (2007). Illustrations and redescriptions of Simon's little known salticid taxa from West-Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). Opuscula Zoologica, Budapest 36: 85-95. -- 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
2026-01-12	Species distribution update	Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026	Old value
2024-09-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-09-06	Species distribution update	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value
2017-09-12	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b