Macaroeris nidicolens (Walckenaer, 1802)

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Described:

Distribution: Europe, North Africa to Turkey, Caucasus, Turkmenistan, Iran. Introduced to Sri Lanka


Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) f (1572, 1572a) of Dendryphantes nebulosus - (C. L. Koch, 1846)
Taxonomic References
Aranea nidicolens Walckenaer, 1802: 246 (Dmf) Original description
Attus nidicolens Walckenaer, 1826: 50, pl. 5, f. 14 (mf)
Dendryphantes nebulosus C. L. Koch, 1846: 89, f. 1151 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063965]
Dendryphantes nidicolens Simon, 1864: 503 (S of Dendryphantes nebulosus)
Marpissa nardoi Canestrini & Pavesi, 1868: 868 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063966]
Attus castaneus Simon, 1868b: 31, pl. 5, f. 8 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063969]
Attus phrygianus Simon, 1868b: 32 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063967]
Attus nitelinus Simon, 1868b: 33 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063970]
Attus luridatus Simon, 1868b: 600 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058180]
Attus nidicolens Simon, 1871a: 141 (S of Attus phrygianus)
Attus nitelinus Simon, 1871a: 140 (S of Attus castaneus)
Attus nitelinus Canestrini, 1876: 213, pl. 8, f. 3 (Dm)
Dendryphantes nidicolens Simon, 1876a: 41 (T from Attus)
Euophrys luridata Simon, 1876a: 197
Dendryphantes nidicolens Becker, 1882b: 22, pl. 4, f. 10 (mf)
Dendryphantes grantii Kulczyński, 1899: 451, pl. 9, f. 127, 139, 146 (f)
Dendryphantes nitelinus Kulczyński, 1911a: 71, pl. 2, f. 92 (f)
Dendryphantes nidicolioides Kolosváry, 1934b: 16, f. 17 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:058182]
Dendryphantes nidicolens Simon, 1937: 1214, 1263, f. 1941-1942 (mf, S of Dendryphantes diligens [revalidated by Denis, 1962a: 53] and D. nitelinus)
Dendryphantes nidicolens Denis, 1962a: 54, f. 43-44, 46 (mf)
Dendryphantes nidicolens Fuhn & Oltean, 1969: 169, pl. I, f. 6 (m)
Dendryphantes nidicolens Miller, 1971: 147, pl. XXII, f. 24-25 (mf)
Eris nidicolens Prószyński, 1976: 150, f. 74, 75, 336-341 (mf, T from Dendryphantes)
Eris nidicolens Flanczewska, 1981: 192, f. 7-8 (f)
Eris nidicolens Hansen, 1986: 101 (S of Euophrys luridata)
Eris nidicolens Heimer & Nentwig, 1991: 498, f. 1328 (mf)
Macaroeris nidicolens Wunderlich, 1992a: 519, f. 848-852 (mf, T from Eris, S of Dendryphantes granti [revalidated by Logunov & Schäfer, 2025: 385, see Macaroeris granti], D. huberi [revalidated by Logunov & Schäfer, 2025: 391, see M. huberi], D. musae [rejected by Logunov & Schäfer, 2025: 385, see M. granti] and D. nidicolioides)
Eris nidicolens Roberts, 1995: 191, f. (mf)
Dendryphantes nidicolens Fuhn & Gherasim, 1995: 78, f. 8B, 31A-G (mf)
Eris nidicolens Maddison, 1996: 332, f. 61 (m)
Eris nidicolens Pesarini, 1997: 259, f. 5 (m)
Eris nidicolens Roberts, 1998: 204, f. (mf)
Macaroeris nidicolens Metzner, 1999: 43, f. 9d-e, 10a-l (mf)
Macaroeris nidicolens Prószyński, 2003: 86, f. 330-337 (mf)
Macaroeris nidicolens Merrett & Milner, 2004: 63, f. 1-5 (mf)
Macaroeris nidicolens Trotta, 2005: 172, f. 403-405 (mf)
Macaroeris nidicolens Wunderlich, 2008f: 715, f. 31-32 (mf)
Macaroeris nidicolens Crespo et al., 2009a: 472, f. 7 (f)
Macaroeris nidicolens Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2016: 19, f. 10A-E (m)
Macaroeris nidicolens Prószyński, 2017b: 97, f. 43L, 44G (mf)
Macaroeris nidicolens Breitling, 2020: 356, f. 32B (f)
Macaroeris nidicolens Szymański et al., 2024: 71, f. 17-18 (m)
Macaroeris nidicolens Logunov & Schäfer, 2025: 404, f. 1-17, 146-149, 153-159, 164-165, 167-169, 171-190 (mf)
References

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Breitling, R. (2020). South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18(4): 333-362. doi: 10.13156/arac.2020.18.4.333 -- Show included taxa

Canestrini, G. & Pavesi, P. (1868). Araneidi italiani. Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali 11: 738-872. -- Show included taxa

Canestrini, G. (1876). Osservazione aracnologiche. Atti della Società Veneto-Trentina di Scienze Naturali, Padova 3: 206-232. -- Show included taxa

Crespo, L. C., Cardoso, P., Henriques, S. & Gaspar, C. (2009a). Spiders (Araneae) from Porto Santo (Madeira, Portugal): additions to the current knowledge. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa 45: 471-475. -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1962a). Les araignées de l'archipel de Madère (Mission du Professeur Vandel). Publicações do Instituto Zoologia Doutor Augusto Nobre 79: 9-118, pl. 1-12. -- Show included taxa

Flanczewska, E. (1981). Remarks on Salticidae (Aranei) of Bulgaria. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 36: 187-228. -- Show included taxa

Fuhn, I. E. & Oltean, C. (1969). Aranee din pǎdurea Hagieni (Dobrogea) [Araigneés de la forêt de Hagieni (Dobroudja)]. Ocrotirea naturii şi mediului inconjurator, Bucureşti 13: 165-174. -- Show included taxa

Fuhn, I. E. & Gherasim, V. F. (1995). Familia Salticidae. Fauna Romaniei (Arachnida) 5(5): 1-301. -- Show included taxa

Hansen, H. (1986). Die Salticidae der coll. Canestrini (Arachnida: Araneae). Lavori della Società Veneziana di Scienze Naturali 11: 97-120. -- Show included taxa

Heimer, S. & Nentwig, W. (1991). Spinnen Mitteleuropas: Ein Bestimmungsbuch. Paul Parey, Berlin, 543 pp. -- Show included taxa

Kanesharatnam, N. & Benjamin, S. P. (2016). Three new generic records and descriptions of four new species of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) from Sri Lanka. European Journal of Taxonomy 228: 1-23. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2016.228 -- Show included taxa

Koch, C. L. (1846). Die Arachniden. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, Dreizehnter Band, pp. 1-234, pl. 433-468 (f. 1078-1271); Vierzehnter Band, pp. 1-88, pl. 467-480 (f. 1272-1342). doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.43744 [[for the correct year of publication see Brignoli, 1985b]] -- Show included taxa

Kolosváry, G. (1934b). 21 neue Spinnenarten aus Slovensko, Ungarn und aus der Banat. Folia Zoologica et Hydrobiologica, Rigā 6: 12-17. -- Show included taxa

Kulczyński, W. (1899). Arachnoidea opera Rev. E. Schmitz collecta in insulis Maderianis et in insulis Selvages dictis. Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzen Wydzialu Matematyczno Przyrodniczego Akademji Umiejetnosci, Krakow 36: 319-461, pl. 6-9. -- Show included taxa

Kulczyński, W. (1911a). Fragmenta Arachnologica. XVI, XVII. Bulletin International de l'Academie des Sciences de Cracovie 1911: 12-75. -- Show included taxa

Logunov, D. V. & Schäfer, M. (2025). A review of the jumping spider genus Macaroeris Wunderlich, 1992 (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae: Dendryphantini). Arachnology 20(3): 364-409. doi: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.3.7 -- Show included taxa

Maddison, W. P. (1996). Pelegrina Franganillo and other jumping spiders formerly placed in the genus Metaphidippus (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 154: 215-368. -- Show included taxa

Merrett, P. & Milner, E. (2004). Macaroeris nidicolens (Walckenaer, 1802) in Britain (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 13: 63-64. -- Show included taxa

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

Miller, F. (1971). Pavouci-Araneida. Klíč zvířeny ČSSR 4: 51-306. -- Show included taxa

Pesarini, C. (1997). I ragni (Arachnida Araneae) del Monte Barro (Italia, Lombardia, Lecco). Memorie della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 27: 251-263. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1976). Studium systematyczno-zoogeograflczne nad rodziną Salticidae (Aranei) Regionów Palearktycznego i Nearktycznego. Wyższa Szkola Pedagogiczna Siedlcach 6: 1-260. [[pdf is made from a reprint from 1979]] -- Show included taxa

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

Roberts, M. J. (1995). Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins London, 383 pp. -- Show included taxa

Roberts, M. J. (1998). Spinnengids. Tirion Baarn, Netherlands, 397 pp. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1864). Histoire naturelle des Araignées (Aranéides). Roret, Paris, 540 pp. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.47654 [[there are two published versions of pp. 65-68, version 1 from BHL, version 2 from Munich library]] -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1868b). Monographie des espèces européennes de la famille des Attides (Attidae Sundewall. - Saltigradae Latreille). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (4) 8: 11-72, 529-726, pl. 5-7. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1871a). Révision des Attidae européens. Supplément à la monographie des Attides (Attidae Sund.). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (5) 1: 125-230, 329-360. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1876a). Les arachnides de France. Tome troisième. Roret, Paris, 364 pp., pl. 9-13. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1937). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 5e et derniére partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 979-1298. -- Show included taxa

Szymański, D., Szymański, D. M., Hurna, K., Szymański, H. M., Białas, H., Czeczor, S. & Pukacz, A. (2024). New data on rare, protected and newly found spiders (Araneae) in the fauna of Poland. Fragmenta Faunistica 66(2, 2023): 63-86. doi: 10.3161/00159301FF2023.66.2.063 [["Accepted: 24 April 2024", published in June]] -- Show included taxa

Trotta, A. (2005). Introduzione al ragni italiani (Arachnida Araneae). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 83: 3-178. doi: 10.4081/memorieSEI.2004.3 -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1802). Faune parisienne. Insectes. Ou histoire abrégée des insectes de environs de Paris, classés d'après le système de Fabricius. Tome seconde. Dentu, Paris, pp. 187-250, 428-430. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.8151 -- Show included taxa

Walckenaer, C. A. (1826). Aranéides. Paris, livr. 11-12: 1-96. -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (1992a). Die Spinnen-Fauna der Makaronesischen Inseln: Taxonomie, Ökologie, Biogeographie und Evolution. Beiträge zur Araneologie 1: 1-619. -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2008f). Identification key to the European genera of the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 5: 698-719, 868. -- 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
2025-11-02 New taxonomic reference entry Logunov & Schäfer, 2025
2025-11-02 Species distribution update Logunov & Schäfer, 2025 Old value
2025-11-02 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Macaroeris huberi (Schmidt, 1981)
2025-11-02 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Macaroeris granti (Warburton, 1892)
2025-11-02 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Macaroeris granti (Warburton, 1892)
2025-11-02 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Macaroeris granti (Warburton, 1892)
2024-07-01 New taxonomic reference entry Szymański et al., 2024
2021-02-07 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Macaroeris diligens (Blackwall, 1867)
2021-02-07 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Macaroeris diligens (Blackwall, 1867)
2020-03-24 New taxonomic reference entry Breitling, 2020
2017-09-15 New taxonomic reference entry Prószyński, 2017b
2016-09-29 New taxonomic reference entry Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2016
2016-09-29 Species distribution update Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2016 Old value
2016-09-19 New taxonomic reference entry Crespo et al., 2009a
2015-07-13 Species distribution update Logunov, 2015a Old value

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