Vicirionessa peckhamorum (Lessert, 1927)

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Described:

Distribution: Guinea, Nigeria, Central African Rep., DR Congo, Uganda, Mozambique


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  • Syntype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA mm ff - (Lessert, 1927)
Taxonomic References
Viciria peckhamorum Lessert, 1927: 455, f. 30 (Dmf) Original description
Viciria peckhamorum Berland & Millot, 1941: 378, 387, f. 76E-F (f)
"Viciria" peckhamorum Prószyński, 1984c: 434 (should be transferred to other genus)
Brancus peckhamorum Wesołowska & Edwards, 2012: 743, f. 38-40, 121 (mf, T from Viciria)
Vicirionessa peckhamorum Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 130 (T from Brancus)
Vicirionessa peckhamorum Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 158, f. 103A-F, 104A-D (mf)
Vicirionessa peckhamorum Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 79, f. 57A-H (mf)
Vicirionessa peckhamorum Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026: 63, f. 55A, 58A-E, 59A-E (mf)
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

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

Lessert, R. de (1927). Araignées du Congo (Premiere partie). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 34(17): 405-475. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.117612 -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1984c). Remarks on Viciria and Telamonia (Araneae, Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 37: 417-436. -- 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

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

Wiśniewski, K. & Wesołowska, W. (2024). Jumping spiders (Salticidae) of Uganda – revised list, new species and distributional data. European Journal of Taxonomy 952: 1-171. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2024.952.2647 -- 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
2024-12-30 New taxonomic reference entry Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-12-30 Species distribution update Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 Old value
2024-09-06 New taxonomic reference entry Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-09-06 Species distribution update 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

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