Pochyta spinosa Simon, 1901

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035700

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Described:

Distribution: Sierra Leone, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Rep., Gabon, Mozambique, Madagascar


Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f (12684 = AR 15859) - (Wesołowska & Szűts, 2021)
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m (22068 = AR 15864) of Pochyta pannosa - (Wesołowska & Szűts, 2021)
  • Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 2f (19138) of Pochyta albimana - (Wesołowska & Szűts, 2021)
Taxonomic References
Pochyta spinosa Simon, 1901g: 69 (Df) Original description
Pochyta albimana Simon, 1902a: 415 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035687]
Pochyta pannosa Simon, 1903e: 115 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035693]
Pochyta pannosa Maddison, Bodner & Needham, 2008: 52, f. 5 (m)
Pochyta spinosa Prószyński, 2017b: 107, f. 47N (m)
Pochyta spinosa Wesołowska & Szűts, 2021: 29, f. 114-136 (mf, S of Pochyta albimana and P. pannosa)
Pochyta spinosa Marta et al., 2024a: 8, f. 2B, 3B (mf)
References

Maddison, W. P., Bodner, M. R. & Needham, K. M. (2008). Salticid spider phylogeny revisited, with the discovery of a large Australasian clade (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 1893: 49-64. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.1893.1.3 -- Show included taxa

Marta, K. S., Bustamante, A. A., Hagopián, D., Teixeira, R. A., Brescovit, A. D., Valiati, V. H. & Rodrigues, E. N. L. (2024a). Taxonomic revision of the jumping spider genus Tullgrenella Mello-Leitão, 1941 (Araneae: Salticidae: Freyina). Zootaxa 5411(1): 1-71. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5411.1.1 -- 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. (1901g). Etudes arachnologiques. 31e Mémoire. L. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Salticidae (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 70(1): 66-76. -- 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. (1903e). Arachnides de la Guinée espagnole. Memorias de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 1(3): 65-124. -- 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
2025-10-01 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Malizna simplex Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025
2024-02-16 New taxonomic reference entry Marta et al., 2024a
2022-10-17 Species distribution update Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 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 Species synonymy Wesołowska & Szűts, 2021 Pochyta pannosa synonymized with Pochyta spinosa
2021-10-13 Species synonymy Wesołowska & Szűts, 2021 Pochyta albimana synonymized with Pochyta spinosa
2017-09-20 New taxonomic reference entry Prószyński, 2017b
2017-09-08 Species distribution update Simon, 1901g Old value

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