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Genus: Asemonea O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Asemonea clara Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:045902

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Described:

Distribution: Mozambique, South Africa

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa f (2010/2706) - (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013)
Paratype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa 11f (2010/2706, 2711, 2715) - (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013)
Paratype: National Museum, Bloemfontein (NMBA), South Africa 6f - (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013)
Paratype: Kwazulu-Natal Museum (NMSA), Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 2f (26415, 26515) - (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013)
Paratype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium 2f - (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013)

Taxonomic References

Asemonea clara Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013: 184, f. 32-33 (Df) Original description

Asemonea clara Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 10, f. 4A-D, 5A-D, 6A-D (Dm, f)

Asemonea clara Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a: 23, f. 1-7 (mf)

References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Van der Walt, V., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2025a). The Salticidae of South Africa. Part 1 (A-Den). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 63 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15222559 -- Show included taxa

Haddad, C. R., Wiśniewski, K. & Wesołowska, W. (2024). The jumping spiders of Mozambique (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 5560(1): 1-92. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5560.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Haddad, C. R. (2013). New data on the jumping spiders of South Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). African Invertebrates 54(1): 177-240. doi: 10.5733/afin.054.0111 -- 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
2025-04-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a
2024-12-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-12-29	First description of male	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value
2024-12-29	Species distribution update	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value