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

Saitis sengleti (Metzner, 1999)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035769

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Described:

Distribution: Greece (incl. Crete)

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 02183) - (Metzner, 1999)
Paratype: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Karlsruhe (SMNK), Germany 1f (ARA 02184) - (Metzner, 1999)
Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 2m 7f (ARTO 27931-27935, ex coll. Senglet) - (Metzner, 1999)
Paratype: Heiko Metzner Private Collection, Karlsruhe, Germany 1m 1f - (Metzner, 1999)

Taxonomic References

Pseudeuophrys sengleti Metzner, 1999: 55, f. 20a-i (mf) Original description

Saitis sengleti Logunov, 2001b: 64, f. 15-18, 23-24 (mf, T from Pseudeuophrys)

"Saitis" sengleti Prószyński et al., 2018: 88, f. 4J, O, T (mf)

References

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

Metzner, H. (1999). Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279. -- 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	Old value	Comment
2018-07-22	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński et al., 2018