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Genus: Pochyta Simon, 1901 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Pochyta pulchra (Thorell, 1899)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035696

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Described:

Distribution: Cameroon, Central African Rep., Gabon

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet), Stockholm (NHRS), Sweden m (1797) - (Wesołowska & Szűts, 2021)
Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m (20229 = AR 15862) of Pochyta occidentalis - (Wesołowska & Szűts, 2021)
Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) m (13412-141) [palp and left leg 1+2 only, taken from the holotype in Stockholm] -

Taxonomic References

Viciria pulchra Thorell, 1899: 97 (Dm) Original description

Pochyta occidentalis Simon, 1902a: 415 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035692]

Pochyta pulchra Simon, 1903f: 725

Pochyta pulchra Prószyński, 1984a: 70 (m)

Pochyta pulchra Prószyński, 2017b: 107, f. 47O, 48S (m)

Pochyta pulchra Wesołowska & Szűts, 2021: 25, f. 97-113 (m, Df, S of Pochyta occidentalis)

References

Prószyński, J. (1984a). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae). Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej w Siedlcach 2: 1-177. -- 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. (1902a). Etudes arachnologiques. 32e Mémoire. LI. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Salticidae (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 71(1-2): 389-421. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1903f). Etudes arachnologiques. 33e Mémoire. LII. Etude sur les arachnides recueillis par M. le Lieutenant de vaisseau Blaise dans l'estuaire du Gabon, pendant qu'il commandait la canonnière "la Cigogne" au Congo français (1894–1896). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 71(4, 1902): 719-725. -- Show included taxa

Thorell, T. (1899). Araneae Camerunenses (Africae occidentalis) quas anno 1891 collegerunt Cel. Dr Y. Sjöstedt aliique. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 25(IV, 1): 1-105. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Szűts, T. (2021). A revision of the genus Pochyta Simon, with descriptions of new species (Araneae: Salticidae: Thiratoscirtina). Zootaxa 5052(1): 1-41. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5052.1.1 -- 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	Comment
2026-01-12	Species distribution update	Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026	Old value
2021-10-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska & Szűts, 2021
2021-10-13	Species distribution update	Wesołowska & Szűts, 2021	Old value
2021-10-13	First description of female	Wesołowska & Szűts, 2021	Old value
2021-10-13	Species synonymy	Wesołowska & Szűts, 2021		Pochyta occidentalis synonymized with Pochyta pulchra
2017-09-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b