Taxon details

Family: Salticidae / Genus: Messua

Messua felix (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-05-25
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034634]
  • Distribution: USA, Mexico. Introduced to Hawaii
Type deposit: provide information
Taxonomic references
Dendryphantes felix Peckham & Peckham, 1901a: 313, pl. 27, f. 6 (Dm).
Metaphidippus felix F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 273.
Dendryphantes felix Roewer, 1955c: 1194.
Metaphidippus felix Prószyński, 1971e: 432 (T from Dendryphantes).
Messua felix Prószyński, 2002: 239, f. 71-74 (m, f undescribed, provided no justification for transfer).
Messua felix Prószyński, 2017b: 92, f. 42K (mf, T from Metaphidippus).
References

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1901a). Spiders of the Phidippus group of the family Attidae. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 13: 282-358. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1901a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2, pp. 193-312, pl. 15-30. [for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011] download pdf -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1971e). Catalogue of Salticidae (Aranei) specimens kept in major collections of the world. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 28: 367-519. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2002). Remarks on Salticidae (Aranei) from Hawaii, with description of Havaika gen.n. Arthropoda Selecta 10: 225-241. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2017b). Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 12: 1-133. doi:10.37828/em.2017.12.1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1955c). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1751 pp. download pdf download pdf -- 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. download pdf

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2017-09-17 New taxonomic reference entry Prószyński, 2017b n/a
2017-09-17 Species transferred to new genus Prószyński, 2017b Species transferred from Metaphidippus to Messua