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Genus: Phintella Strand, 1906 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Phintella pygmaea (Wesołowska, 1981)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035553

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Described:

Distribution: China

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum and Institute of Zoology (MIZ), Polish Academy of Science (PAN), Warsaw, Poland f - (Wesołowska, 1981a)

Taxonomic References

Euophrys pygmaea Wesołowska, 1981a: 49, f. 11-14 (Df) Original description

Euophrys pygmaea Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 509, f. 293E-F, 325G (f)

Phintella pygmaea Logunov & Marusik, 2000: 268 (T from Euophrys)

Phintella pygmaea Peng, 2020: 306, f. 219a-b (f)

Phintella pygmaea Wang et al., 2023e: 49, f. 24A-C, 25A-G (Dm, f)

References

Logunov, D. V. & Marusik, Y. M. (2000). Miscellaneous notes on Palaearctic Salticidae (Arachnida: Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta 8(4, 1999): 263-292. -- Show included taxa

Peng, X. J. (2020). Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 53, Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae. Science Press, Beijing, 612 pp. -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa

Wang, C., Mi, X. Q., Wang, W. H., Gan, J. H., Irfan, M., Zhong, Y. & Peng, X. J. (2023e). Notes on twenty-nine species of jumping spiders from South China (Araneae: Salticidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 902: 1-91. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2023.902.2319 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (1981a). Salticidae (Aranei) from North Korea, China and Mongolia. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 36: 45-83. -- 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
2023-11-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Wang et al., 2023e
2023-11-07	First description of male	Wang et al., 2023e	Old value
2020-07-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Peng, 2020