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Genus: Myrmarachne MacLeay, 1839 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Myrmarachne eidmanni Roewer, 1942

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034771

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Described:

Distribution: Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Rep., DR Congo

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium m (122553) of Myrmarachne punctata - (Wanless & Clark, 1975)
Lectotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany m (9908822-141) [N.B.: whereabouts of the 2nd m from the original description are unknown] - (Wanless, 1978a)

Taxonomic References

Myrmarachne eidmanni Roewer, 1942b: 252, pl. 19, f. 8 (Dm) Original description

Myrmarachne punctata Wanless & Clark, 1975: 290, f. 29-35 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061588]

Myrmarachne eidmanni Wanless, 1978a: 39, f. 17A-H (m, S of Myrmarachne punctata)

Myrmarachne eidmanni Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 62, f. 38A-G (Df)

References

Roewer, C. F. (1942b). Opiliones, Pedipalpi und Araneae von Fernando Poo. 21. Beitrag zu den wissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen der Westafrika Expedition Eidmann 1939/40. Veröffentlichungen aus dem Deutschen Kolonial- und Übersee-Museum Bremen 3: 244-258. -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. & Clark, D. J. (1975). On a collection of spiders of the family Salticidae from the Ivory Coast (Araneae). Revue Zoologique Africaine 89: 273-296. -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. (1978a). A revision of the spider genera Belippo and Myrmarachne (Araneae: Salticidae) in the Ethiopian region. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 33(1): 1-139. doi: 10.5962/p.28732 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2022). Jumping spiders from Ivory Coast collected by J.-C. Ledoux (Araneae, Salticidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 841: 1-143. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2022.841.1943 -- 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
2022-10-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022
2022-10-16	First description of female	Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022	Old value