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Genus: Saitis Simon, 1876 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Saitis ariadneae Logunov, 2001

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038283

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Described:

Distribution: Greece (Crete)

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m (AR I13336) of Pseudeuophrys pallidipes - (Růžička et al., 2005)
Holotype: Natural History Museum of the University of Crete (NHMC), Heraklion, Greece m - (Logunov, 2025b)
Paratype: Natural History Museum of the University of Crete (NHMC), Heraklion, Greece 5m - (Logunov, 2025b)
Paratype: Manchester Museum of the University of Manchester (MMUE/MMUM), Manchester, United Kingdom 4m 1f (G 7231, 7248) - (Logunov, 2025b)
Paratype: Zoological Museum of Moscow University (ZMMU), Moscow, Russia 1m - (Logunov, 2025b)

Taxonomic References

Saitis ariadneae Logunov, 2001b: 62, f. 19-22, 25-26 (Dmf) Original description

Pseudeuophrys pallidipes Dobroruka, 2002a: 18, f. 18-23 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039124]

Saitis ariadneae Bosmans et al., 2013: 10 (S of Pseudeuophrys pallidipes)

"Saitis" ariadneae Prószyński et al., 2018: 88, f. 4K,P,U (mf)

References

Bosmans, R., Van Keer, J., Russell-Smith, A., Kronestedt, T., Alderweireldt, M., Bosselaers, J. & De Koninck, H. (2013). Spiders of Crete (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from the Greek island of Crete. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 28(supplement 1): 1-147. -- Show included taxa

Dobroruka, L. J. (2002a). Notes on a collection of jumping spiders from Greece, mainly from Crete (Araneae: Salticidae). Biologia Gallo-hellenica 28: 5-26. -- Show included taxa

Logunov, D. V. (2001b). New and poorly known species of the jumping spiders (Aranei: Salticidae) from Afghanistan, Iran and Crete. Arthropoda Selecta 10: 59-66. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J., Noordam, A., Oger, P. & Schäfer, M. (2018). Delimitation of Mediterranean genus Iberattus gen. n., with comments on genus Saitis (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 18: 82-98. doi: 10.37828/em.2018.18.6 -- 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	Comment
2018-07-22	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński et al., 2018
2014-07-03	New taxonomic reference entry	Bosmans et al., 2013
2014-07-03	Species synonymy	Bosmans et al., 2013	Saitis pallidipes synonymized with Saitis ariadneae