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Genus: Nilakantha G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Nilakantha cockerelli G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036552

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Described:

Distribution: Hispaniola, Jamaica

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

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Taxonomic References

Nilacantha cockwelli Simon, 1901a: 459 (lapsus)

Nilakantha cockerelli Peckham & Peckham, 1901b: 8, pl. 2, f. 1 (Dmf) Original description

Thiodina cockerelli Bryant, 1950a: 203, f. 18 (f)

Nilakantha cockerelli Bustamante, Maddison & Ruiz, 2015: 188 (T from Thiodina)

References

Bryant, E. B. (1950a). The salticid spiders of Jamaica. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 103: 163-209. -- Show included taxa

Bustamante, A. A., Maddison, W. P. & Ruiz, G. R. S. (2015). The jumping spider genus Thiodina Simon, 1900 reinterpreted, and revalidation of Colonus F.O.P-Cambridge, 1901 and Nilakantha Peckham & Peckham, 1901 (Araneae: Salticidae: Amycoida). Zootaxa 4012(1): 181-190. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4012.1.10 -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1901b). On spiders of the family Attidae found in Jamaica. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 71(1): 6-16, pl. 2-4. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1901.tb08162.x -- 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

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
2015-09-09	Species updated	Bustamante, Maddison & Ruiz, 2015	Old value
2015-09-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Bustamante, Maddison & Ruiz, 2015
2015-09-09	Species transferred to new genus	Bustamante, Maddison & Ruiz, 2015		Species transferred from Thiodina to Nilakantha