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Genus: Pseudicius Simon, 1885 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Pseudicius vankeeri Metzner, 1999

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035836

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Described:

Distribution: Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Karlsruhe (SMNK), Germany m (ARA 02187) - (Metzner, 1999)
Holotype: National Natural History Collections, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (HUJ), Israel m (14959) of Pseudicius miriae - (Logunov, 2009c)
Paratype: National Natural History Collections, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (HUJ), Israel 1f (15489) of Pseudicius miriae - (Logunov, 2009c)

Taxonomic References

Pseudicius vankeeri Metzner, 1999: 95, f. 60a-h (Dm) Original description

Pseudicius miriae Prószyński, 2000: 259, f. 104-109 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035807]

Pseudicius miriae Prószyński, 2003: 151, f. 594, 605-609 (mf)

Pseudicius vankeeri Logunov, 2009c: 909, f. 22-29 (mf, S of Pseudicius miriae)

Okinawicius [?] vankeeri Prószyński, 2016: 22, f. 8C-E (mf, T from Pseudicius)

Pseudicius vankeeri Schäfer & Breitling, 2018: 71 (T from Okinawicius)

Pseudicius vankeeri Schäfer, 2024: 15, f. 19c (f)

References

Logunov, D. V. (2009c). New and poorly known species of Salticidae (Araneae) from Turkey and Iran. Contributions to Natural History 12: 899-919. doi: 10.5169/seals-787004 -- Show included taxa

Metzner, H. (1999). Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2000). On mostly new species of Salticidae (Aranei) from Levant. Arthropoda Selecta 8(4, 1999): 231-262. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2003). Salticidae (Araneae) of the Levant. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 53: 1-180. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2016). Delimitation and description of 19 new genera, a subgenus and a species of Salticidae (Araneae) of the world. Ecologica Montenegrina 7: 4-32. doi: 10.37828/em.2016.7.1 -- Show included taxa

Schäfer, M. & Breitling, R. (2018). Ein Beitrag zur Springspinnenfauna (Araneae, Salticidae) der griechischen Dodekanes-Insel Rhodos mit der Neubeschreibung von Pseudeuophrys rhodiensis und sechs weiteren Erstnachweisen. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 55: 64-74. doi: 10.30963/aramit5512 -- Show included taxa

Schäfer, M. (2024). Zur Springspinnenfauna (Araneae: Salticidae) der griechischen Dodekanes-Insel Rhodos, mit der Erstbeschreibung des Weibchens von Pseudeuophrys rhodiensis und dem ersten Nachweis von Evarcha nepos für Griechenland. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 68: 10-17. doi: 10.30963/aramit6804 -- 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.

Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

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
2024-11-04	New taxonomic reference entry	Schäfer, 2024
2018-05-15	New taxonomic reference entry	Schäfer & Breitling, 2018
2018-05-15	Species transferred to new genus	Schäfer & Breitling, 2018		Species transferred from Okinawicius to Pseudicius
2016-11-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2016
2016-11-11	Species transferred to new genus	Prószyński, 2016		Species transferred from Pseudicius to Okinawicius
2015-07-13	Species distribution update	Logunov, 2015a	Old value