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

Asemonea stella Wanless, 1980

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032354

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Described:

Distribution: Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa. Introduced to Australia (Queensland)

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 (1979.9.28.1) - (Wanless, 1980d)
Paratype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 1m 1f (J. & F. Murphy 4038, 6207) - (Wanless, 1980d)

Taxonomic References

Asemonea stella Wanless, 1980d: 237, f. 16A-F; 28 (Dmf) Original description

Asemonea stella Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000: 16, f. 14-17 (f)

Asemonea stella Szűts, 2000: 63, f. 1-6 (f)

Asemonea stella Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009: 21, f. 12-13 (f)

Asemonea stella Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a: 25, f. 1-8 (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

Szűts, T. (2000). An Afrotropical species, Asemonea stella (Araneae: Salticidae), found in Australia. Folia Entomologica Hungarica 61: 61-63. -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. (1980d). A revision of the spider genera Asemonea and Pandisus (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 39(4): 213-257. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2000). Jumping spiders from Mkomazi Game Reserve in Tanzania (Araneae Salticidae). Tropical Zoology 13(1): 11-127. doi: 10.1080/03946975.2000.10531126 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Haddad, C. R. (2009). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Ndumo Game Reserve, Maputaland, South Africa. African Invertebrates 50(1): 13-103. doi: 10.5733/afin.050.0102 -- 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
2025-04-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a