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Genus: Afraflacilla Berland & Millot, 1941 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Afraflacilla wadis (Prószyński, 1989)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032231

Permalink: https://wsc.nmbe.ch/lsid/urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032231

Described:

Distribution: Saudi Arabia, Israel, Yemen

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel (NMB), Switzerland (database search of type material, 08.04.2019) Pseudicius wadis Prószyński, 1989, 1 m (NMB-ARAN-02394 e) -
Paratype: Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel (NMB), Switzerland (database search of type material, 08.04.2019) Pseudicius wadis Prószyński, 1989, 6 m 10 f 5 j (NMB-ARAN-02394 a-d, f, g) -

Taxonomic References

Pseudicius wadis Prószyński, 1989a: 57, f. 64-68 (Dmf) Original description

Afraflacilla wadis Wesołowska & van Harten, 1994: 9, f. 14-18 (mf, T from Pseudicius)

Pseudicius wadis Prószyński, 2003: 154, f. 623-627 (mf, T from Afraflacilla)

Pseudicius wadis Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008: 47, f. 182-184 (m)

Pseudicius wadis Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012: 51, f. 155-159 (mf)

Afraflacilla wadis Miñano & Tamajón, 2017: 75, f. 4b, 5b (mf)

Afraflacilla wadis Prószyński, 2017b: 43 (T from Pseudicius)

References

Miñano, J. & Tamajón, R. (2017). Descripción de una nueva especie de Afraflacilla Berland & Millot, 1941 (Araneae: Salticidae) del área del Mediterráneo occidental. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 71-81. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1989a). Salticidae (Araneae) of Saudi Arabia. Fauna Saudi Arabia 10: 31-64. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2003). Salticidae (Araneae) of the Levant. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 53: 1-180. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. & Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L. (2012). Description of some Salticidae (Aranei) from the Malay archipelago. II. Salticidae of Java and Sumatra, with comments on related species. Arthropoda Selecta 21(1): 29-60. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.21.1.04 -- 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 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Harten, A. van (1994). The jumping spiders (Salticidae, Araneae) of Yemen. Yemeni-German Plant Protection Project Sana'a, 86 pp. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Tomasiewicz, B. (2008). New species and records of Ethiopian jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 4: 3-59. -- 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
2017-12-31	New taxonomic reference entry	Miñano & Tamajón, 2017
2017-09-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b