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Genus: Sobasina Simon, 1898 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Sobasina amoenula Simon, 1898

SPECIES | ACCEPTED | TYPE SPECIES

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036286

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Described:

Distribution: Solomon Is.

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

Type Repository Provide information

It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France -

Taxonomic References

Sobasina amoenula Simon, 1898b: 276 (Df) Original description

Sobasina amoenula Simon, 1901a: 515, f. 613-615

Sobasina amoenula Berland, 1938: 151, f. 50-60 (f, Dm)

Sobasina amoenula Wanless, 1978d: 247, f. 2A-H (f)

Sobasina amoenula Prószyński, 2017d: 59, f. 1A.A-H, 3K-K1, 4J (mf)

References

Berland, L. (1938). Araignées des Nouvelles Hébrides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 107: 121-190. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2017d). Review of the genus Sobasina (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 15: 53-61. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.15.8 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1898b). Etudes arachnologiques. 28e Mémoire. XLIII. Arachnides recueillis par M. le Dr Ph. François en Nouvelle Calédonie, aux Nouvelles-Hebrides (Mallicolo) et à l'île de Vanikoro. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 66: 271-276. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1901a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 381-668. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[last page with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. (1978d). A revision of the spider genus Sobasina (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 33: 245-257. -- 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
2017-12-23	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017d