Taxon details
Epeus albus Prószyński, 1992
- Rank: Species
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2025-09-17
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033192]
- Distribution: India, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia (Sumatra)
- External Resources *:
- Holotype: National Zoological Collections, Zoological Survey of India (NZC-ZSI), Kolkata, India; f (5407/18-B) of Epeus chilapataensis (Sudhin et al., 2024)
- Holotype: Hungarian Natural History Museum (HNHM), Budapest, Hungary; f (929) (Prószyński, 1992b)
Epeus albus Prószyński, 1992b: 171, f. 20-21, 25 (Df).
Epeus chilapataensis Logunov, 2004c: 75 (T from Lyssomanes).
Epeus tener Patoleta, Gardzińska & Żabka, 2020: 8, f. 2A-G (m; possibly Epeus glorius per Hill, 2025a: 4; misidentified per Dhiya'ulhaq et al., 2025b: 11).
Epeus daiqini Sibi, Gigi & Sudhikumar, 2023: 80, f. 1A-F, 2A-E (mf; misidentified per Sudhin et al., 2024: 448).
Epeus albus Sudhin et al., 2024: 448, f. 1A-H, 2A-E, 3A-F, 4A-F, 5A-E (Dm, f, S of Epeus chilapataensis).
Epeus albus Tam & Thuy, 2025: 1, f. 1-13 (mf).
Epeus albus Hill, 2025a: 13, f. 7.1-18, 8.1-19, 9.1-5, 10.1-6, 11 (mf, possibly senior S of Epeus pallidus and E. szirakii).
Epeus albus Dhiya'ulhaq et al., 2025b: 11, f. 7A-D, 8A-D, 9A-E (mf).
Biswas, B. & Biswas, K. (1992). Araneae: Spiders. State Fauna Series 3: Fauna of West Bengal 3, 357-500. 
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Dhiya'ulhaq, N. U., Buchori, D., Scheu, S. & Drescher, J. (2025b). Eleven new species of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) from Sumatra. European Journal of Taxonomy 1015: 1-68. doi:10.5852/ejt.2025.1015.3061 -- Show included taxa
Hill, D. E. (2025a). Identification of jumping spiders placed in the genus Epeus (Araneae: Salticidae: Plexippini: Plexippina). Peckhamia 330.1: 1-50. -- Show included taxa
Logunov, D. V. (2004c). On the taxonomic position of "Lyssomanes" karnatakaensis and other Indian species formerly assigned to Lyssomanes (Araneae, Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 13: 73-75. -- Show included taxa
Patoleta, B. M., Gardzińska, J. & Żabka, M. (2020). Salticidae (Arachnida, Araneae) of Thailand: new species and records of Epeus Peckham & Peckham, 1886 and Ptocasius Simon, 1885. PeerJ 8(e9352): 1-23. -- Show included taxa
Prószyński, J. (1992b). Salticidae (Araneae) of India in the collection of the Hungarian National Natural History Museum in Budapest. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 44: 165-277. -- Show included taxa
Sibi, K. K., Gigi, P. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2023). First report of the jumping spider Epeus daiqini (Patoleta, Gardzińska & Żabka, 2020) (Araneae: Salticidae) from India. Natura Somogyiensis 41: 79-84. doi:10.24394/NatSom.2023.41.79 -- Show included taxa
Sudhin, P. P., Jwala, R., Sen, S. & Hegde, V. D. (2024). Taxonomic notes on the genus Epeus Peckham & Peckham, 1886 (Araneae, Salticidae) from India. Zoosystematics and Evolution 100(2): 447-455. doi:10.3897/zse.100.118686 -- Show included taxa
Tam, T. V. & Thuy, N. H. K. (2025). First record of Epeus albus Prószyński 1992 in Vietnam (Araneae: Salticidae: Plexippini). Peckhamia 328.1: 1-2. -- Show included taxa
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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]
Metzner, H. (2019). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.
Prószyński, J. (2016). Monograph of Salticidae (Araneae) of the World 1995-2015. Part II. Global Species Database of Salticidae (Araneae). Version October 30th, 2016, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.
| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-17 | Taxonomic reference added from other taxon | n/a (Old value) | |
| 2025-09-17 | New taxonomic reference entry | Dhiya'ulhaq et al., 2025b | n/a |
| 2025-09-17 | Species distribution update | Dhiya'ulhaq et al., 2025b | n/a (Old value) |
| 2025-05-22 | New taxonomic reference entry | Hill, 2025a | n/a |
| 2025-05-14 | New taxonomic reference entry | Tam & Thuy, 2025 | n/a |
| 2025-05-14 | Species distribution update | Tam & Thuy, 2025 | n/a (Old value) |
| 2024-04-19 | Taxonomic reference added from other taxon | Sudhin et al., 2024 | n/a (Old value) |
| 2024-04-19 | First description of male | Sudhin et al., 2024 | n/a (Old value) |
| 2024-04-19 | New taxonomic reference entry | Sudhin et al., 2024 | n/a |
| 2024-04-19 | Species synonymy | Sudhin et al., 2024 | Epeus chilapataensis synonymized with Epeus albus |