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Genus: Habrocestum Simon, 1876 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Habrocestum albimanum Simon, 1901

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033551

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Described:

Distribution: South Africa

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m (20173; includes 2f 1j, f is not described) - (Clark, 1974)

Taxonomic References

Habrocestum albimanum Simon, 1901g: 71 (Dm) Original description

Habrocestum albimanum Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013: 199, f. 68-70 (m)

Habrocestum albimanum Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025b: 49, f. 1-4 (m)

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

Simon, E. (1901g). Etudes arachnologiques. 31e Mémoire. L. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Salticidae (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 70(1): 66-76. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Haddad, C. R. (2013). New data on the jumping spiders of South Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). African Invertebrates 54(1): 177-240. doi: 10.5733/afin.054.0111 -- 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