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Genus: Vicirionessa Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Vicirionessa niveimana (Simon, 1902)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036759

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Described:

Distribution: Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Mozambique

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

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Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 3m (12013) - (Clark, 1974)

Taxonomic References

Viciria niveimana Simon, 1902d: 49 (Dm) Original description

Viciria niveimana Simon, 1903a: 752, f. 887

Viciria niveimana Berland & Millot, 1941: 385, f. 83 (m)

Brancus niveimanus Wesołowska & Edwards, 2012: 742, f. 34-37, 122 (m, T from Viciria)

Vicirionessa niveimana Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 135 (T from Brancus)

References

Berland, L. & Millot, J. (1941). Les araignées de l'Afrique Occidentale Française I.-Les salticides. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (N.S.) 12: 297-423. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1902d). Description d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Salticidae (Attidae) (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 46: 24-56, 363-406. -- 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

Wesołowska, W. & Edwards, G. B. (2012). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Calabar area (SE Nigeria). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 62(4): 733-772. doi: 10.3161/000345412X659786 -- 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	Comment
2024-12-30	Species distribution update	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value
2022-10-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022
2022-10-17	Species transferred to new genus	Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022		Species transferred from Brancus to Vicirionessa