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Genus: Festucula Simon, 1901 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Festucula lawrencei Lessert, 1933

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033442

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Described:

Distribution: Ghana, Angola, Botswana

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 (12022-12023) - (Azarkina & Foord, 2014)

Taxonomic References

Festucula lawrencei Lessert, 1933: 152, f. 72 (Dm) Original description

Festucula lawrencei Wesołowska, 1992: 50, f. 26-27 (m)

Festucula lawrencei Azarkina & Foord, 2014: 365, f. 15, 77-87 (m)

Festucula lawrencei Azarkina & Foord, 2023: 298, f. 8-21 (m, Df)

Festucula lawrencei Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025: 607, f. 9A-D (m)

References

Azarkina, G. N. & Foord, S. H. (2014). A revision of the Afrotropical species of Festucula Simon, 1901 (Araneae: Salticidae). African Invertebrates 55(2): 351-375. doi: 10.5733/afin.055.0201 -- Show included taxa

Azarkina, G. N. & Foord, S. H. (2023). Further notes on the Afrotropical genus Festucula Simon, 1901 (Araneae, Salticidae). ZooKeys 1185: 285-308. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1185.110365 -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1933). Araignées d'Angola. Résultats de la Mission scientifique suisse en Angola 1928-1929. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 40(1): 85-159. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.117656 -- Show included taxa

Wawer, W. & Wesołowska, W. (2025). Jumping spiders from Ghana collected by J. Prószyński (Araneae: Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 75(2): 599-628. doi: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2025.75.2.013 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (1992). A revision of the spider genus Festucula Simon, 1901 (Araneae Salticidae). Journal of African Zoology 106: 45-54. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

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
2025-06-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025
2025-06-29	Species distribution update	Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025	Old value
2023-12-04	New taxonomic reference entry	Azarkina & Foord, 2023
2023-12-04	First description of female	Azarkina & Foord, 2023	Old value
2023-12-04	Species distribution update	Azarkina & Foord, 2023	Old value
2015-03-17	Species distribution update	Azarkina & Foord, 2014	Old value
2015-03-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Azarkina & Foord, 2014
2015-03-17	Species updated	Azarkina & Foord, 2014	Old value
2015-03-17	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon	Azarkina & Foord, 2014		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Festucula haddadi Azarkina & Foord, 2014
2015-03-17	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon	Azarkina & Foord, 2014		Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Festucula festuculaeformis (Lessert, 1925)