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Genus: Afromarengo Benjamin, 2004 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Afromarengo lyrifera (Wanless, 1978)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034430

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Described:

Distribution: Angola, Tanzania

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK m - (Azarkina & Haddad, 2020)

Taxonomic References

Marengo lyrifera Wanless, 1978e: 264, f. 2A-F (Dm) Original description

Afromarengo lyrifera Benjamin, 2004b: 65 (T from Marengo)

Afromarengo lyrifera Wesołowska, 2018b: 399, f. 1A-F, 2A-F (m, Df)

References

Benjamin, S. P. (2004b). Taxonomic revision and phylogenetic hypothesis for the jumping spider subfamily Ballinae (Araneae, Salticidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 142(1): 1-82. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00123.x -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. (1978e). A revision of the spider genus Marengo (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 33(4): 259-278. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (2018b). Redescription of Afromarengo lyrifera (Araneae: Salticidae: Ballinae). Arachnology 17(8): 399-401. doi: 10.13156/arac.2017.17.8.399 -- 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
2018-07-23	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska, 2018b
2018-07-23	First description of female	Wesołowska, 2018b	Old value
2018-07-23	Species distribution update	Wesołowska, 2018b	Old value