Evarcha ignea Wesołowska & Cumming, 2008

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041646

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Described:

Distribution: Nigeria, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa


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Taxonomic References
Evarcha ignea Wesołowska & Cumming, 2008: 175, f. 22-23 (Dm) Original description
Evarcha ignea Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009: 30, f. 34-37, 212 (m)
Evarcha ignea Haddad & Wesołowska, 2013: 471, f. 26-27, 98-99 (Df)
Evawes ignea Prószyński, 2018b: 153, f. 2T, 13G-H (mf)
Evarcha ignea Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025b: 29, f. 1-5 (mf)
References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Van der Walt, V., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2025b). The Salticidae of South Africa. Part 2 (E-Ha). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 65 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15266589 -- Show included taxa

Haddad, C. R. & Wesołowska, W. (2013). Additions to the jumping spider fauna of South Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). Genus 24(3-4): 459-501. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2018b). Review of genera Evarcha and Nigorella, with comments on Emertonius, Padilothorax [sic], Stagetillus, and description of five new genera and two new species (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 16: 130-179. doi: 10.37828/em.2018.16.12 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Cumming, M. S. (2008). Taxonomy and natural history of a species rich assemblage of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae); a long-term study of a suburban site in Zimbabwe. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 58: 167-230. -- 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
2025-04-24 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025b
2025-04-24 Species distribution update Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025b Old value
2024-12-29 Species distribution update Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 Old value
2019-01-20 New taxonomic reference entry Prószyński, 2018b
2014-06-30 New taxonomic reference entry Haddad & Wesołowska, 2013
2014-06-30 First description of female Haddad & Wesołowska, 2013 Old value

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