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Genus: Alfenus Simon, 1902 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Alfenus calamistratus Simon, 1902

SPECIES | ACCEPTED | TYPE SPECIES

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032271

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Described:

Distribution: DR Congo, Uganda

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m (22084) - (Szűts & Scharff, 2005)

Taxonomic References

Alfenus calamistratus Simon, 1902a: 411 (Dm) Original description

Alfenus calamistratus Simon, 1903a: 739, f. 868-869

Alfenus calamistratus Szűts & Scharff, 2005: 359, f. 1A, C, 2A-F, 3A-D (m)

Alfenus calamistratus Prószyński, 2017b: 107, f. 47E, 48M (m)

Alfenus calamistratus Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 4, f. 2A-D (Df)

References

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

Simon, E. (1902a). Etudes arachnologiques. 32e Mémoire. LI. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Salticidae (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 71(1-2): 389-421. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1903a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 669-1080. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Szűts, T. & Scharff, N. (2005). Redescriptions of little known jumping spider genera (Araneae: Salticidae) from West Africa. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 51(4): 357-378. -- Show included taxa

Wiśniewski, K. & Wesołowska, W. (2024). Jumping spiders (Salticidae) of Uganda – revised list, new species and distributional data. European Journal of Taxonomy 952: 1-171. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2024.952.2647 -- 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
2024-09-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-09-06	First description of female	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value
2024-09-06	Species distribution update	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value
2017-09-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b