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Genus: Baryphas Simon, 1902 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Baryphas galeatus (Simon, 1902)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035704

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Described:

Distribution: Sierra Leone

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f (lost) - (Szűts, 2007)

Taxonomic References

Polemus galeatus Simon, 1902d: 44 (Df) Original description

Polemus galeatus Simon, 1903a: 680, f. 810

Polemus galeatus Szűts, 2007: 92, f. 26-30 (m)

Baryphas galeatus Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 17 (T from Polemus)

References

Simon, E. (1902d). Description d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Salticidae (Attidae) (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 46: 24-56, 363-406. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1903a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 669-1080. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Szűts, T. (2007). Illustrations and redescriptions of Simon's little known salticid taxa from West-Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). Opuscula Zoologica, Budapest 36: 85-95. -- 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	Comment
2022-10-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022
2022-10-16	Species transferred to new genus	Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022		Species transferred from Polemus to Baryphas