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

Vicirionessa occidentalis (Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:044521

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Described:

Distribution: Guinea, Nigeria, Central African Rep.

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 - (Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011)

Taxonomic References

Brancus occidentalis Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011: 567, f. 49-51, 221 (Dm) Original description

Vicirionessa occidentalis Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 130 (T from Brancus)

Vicirionessa occidentalis Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025: 904, f. 90A-C (m)

Vicirionessa occidentalis Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026: 63, f. 57A-D (m)

References

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

Wesołowska, W. & Henrard, A. (2025). New data on the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from the Nimba Mountains, Guinea. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 75(3): 811-912. doi: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2025.75.3.010 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W., Russell-Smith, A. & Danflous, S. (2026). The jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from the southwestern region of Central African Republic. Zootaxa 5743(1): 1-74. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5743.1.1 -- 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
2026-01-12	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026
2026-01-12	Species distribution update	Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026	Old value
2025-10-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025
2025-10-02	Species distribution update	Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025	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