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Genus: Telamonia Thorell, 1887 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Telamonia caprina (Simon, 1903)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036487

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Described:

Distribution: China, Vietnam

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

Viciria caprina Simon, 1903g: 734 (Dm) Original description

Telamonia caprina Żabka, 1985: 448, f. 581-590 (mf, T from Viciria)

Telamonia caprina Zhang, Song & Zhu, 1992: 5, f. 9.1-3 (m)

Telamonia caprina Peng et al., 1993: 232, f. 824-829 (mf)

Telamonia caprina Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 562, f. 319P-Q, 320E, 330C (mf)

Telamonia caprina Yin et al., 2012: 1488, f. 811a-f (mf)

Telamonia caprina Peng, 2020: 470, f. 345a-f (mf)

References

Peng, X. J., Xie, L. P., Xiao, X. Q. & Yin, C. M. (1993). Salticids in China (Arachnida: Araneae). Hunan Normal University Press, 270 pp. -- Show included taxa

Peng, X. J. (2020). Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 53, Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae. Science Press, Beijing, 612 pp. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1903g). Etudes arachnologiques. 33e Mémoire. LIII. Arachnides recueillis à Phuc-Son (Annam) par M. H. Fruhstorfer (nov-dec. 1899). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 71(4, 1902): 725-736. -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa

Yin, C. M., Peng, X. J., Yan, H. M., Bao, Y. H., Xu, X., Tang, G., Zhou, Q. S. & Liu, P. (2012). Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China. Hunan Science and Technology Press Changsha, 1590 pp. -- Show included taxa

Żabka, M. (1985). Systematic and zoogeographic study on the family Salticidae (Araneae) from Viet-Nam. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 39: 197-485. -- Show included taxa

Zhang, Y. Q., Song, D. X. & Zhu, M. S. (1992). Notes on a new and eight newly recorded species of jumping spiders in Guangxi, China (Araneae: Salticidae). Journal of the Guangxi Agricultural College 11(4): 1-6. -- 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.

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
2020-07-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Peng, 2020