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

Bacelarella dracula Szűts & Jocqué, 2001

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038212

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Described:

Distribution: Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium m (203626) - (Szűts & Jocqué, 2001b)
Paratype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium 16m 11f - (Szűts & Jocqué, 2001b)
Paratype: Hungarian Natural History Museum (HNHM), Budapest, Hungary 2m 3f - (Szűts & Jocqué, 2001b)

Taxonomic References

Bacelarella dracula Jocqué & Szűts, 2001: 95, f. 1D (mf)

Bacelarella dracula Szűts & Jocqué, 2001b: 86, f. 1B, 2A, F-G, 3D, K, 4C-D, G-H, 7C, F, 8B, 9B (Dmf) Original description

Bacelarella dracula Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011: 559, f. 21-29, 217-218 (mf)

Bacelarella dracula Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 11, f. 6A-D (mf)

References

Jocqué, R. & Szűts, T. (2001). Bacelarella (Araneae, Salticidae) in eastern Côte d'Ivoire: salticid radiation in a poorly lit environment. Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques 285: 93-99. -- Show included taxa

Szűts, T. & Jocqué, R. (2001b). New species in the genus Bacelarella (Araneae, Salticidae) from Côte d'Ivoire. Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques 285: 77-92. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2011). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from southern Nigeria. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 61(3): 553-619. doi: 10.3161/000345411X603409 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2022). Jumping spiders from Ivory Coast collected by J.-C. Ledoux (Araneae, Salticidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 841: 1-143. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2022.841.1943 -- 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
2025-10-01	Species distribution update	Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025	Old value
2025-06-29	Species distribution update	Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025	Old value
2022-10-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022