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Genus: Holcolaetis Simon, 1886 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Holcolaetis vellerea Simon, 1909

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033927

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Described:

Distribution: Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Sao Tome, DR Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Angola, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, Yemen

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland m (ARTO-0027884; in AMNH per Wanless, 1985: 255) of Holcolaetis vidua -
Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany m of Holcolaetis camerunensis - (Wanless, 1985)
Lectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f - (Wanless, 1985)

Taxonomic References

Holcolethis vellerea Simon, 1909f: 412 (Df) Original description

Holcolaetis vidua Lessert, 1927: 426, f. 15 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061972]

Holcolaetis vidua Dyal, 1935: 222 (mf)

Holcolaetis dyali Roewer, 1951: 444 (superfluous and invalid replacement name for Dyal's record; Dyal refers to Lessert's species; nevertheless it is unlikely, that the species occurs in Pakistan) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033925]

Holcolaetis camerunensis Roewer, 1965: 26, f. 23, 24a (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061971]

Holcolaetis vidua Roewer, 1965: 27, f. 24c (m)

Holcolaetis vellerea Clark, 1974: 16 (S of Holcolaetis vidua)

Holcolaetis vidua Wanless, 1984b: 446, f. 3B, 20A-F, 22B, D, F

Holcolaetis vellerea Wanless, 1985: 255, f. 1A-B, 4A-J, 5A-D, 12A-B, 15A-B, 16B, 17-19 (mf, S of Holcolaetis camerunensis)

Holcolaetis vellerea Wesołowska & van Harten, 2007: 221, f. 89-94 (m)

Holcolaetis vellerea Wesołowska & Cumming, 2008: 188, f. 67-70 (mf)

Holcolaetis vellerea Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 46, f. 30A-C (m)

Holcolaetis vellerea Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c: 47, p. 46: f. 2, p. 47: f. 1-6 (mf)

References

Clark, D. J. (1974). Notes on Simon's types of African Salticidae. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 3(1): 11-27. -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Walt, V. van der, Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2025c). The Salticidae of South Africa. Part 3 (He-Iran). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 74 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.17103454 -- Show included taxa

Dyal, S. (1935). Fauna of Lahore. 4.–Spiders of Lahore. Bulletin of the Department of Zoology of the Panjab University 1: 119-252, pl. 11-17. -- 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

Roewer, C. F. (1951). Neue Namen einiger Araneen-Arten. Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins zu Bremen 32: 437-456. -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1965). Die Lyssomanidae und Salticidae-Pluridentati der Äthiopischen Region (Araneae). Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques 139: 1-86. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1909f). Arachnides recueillis par L. Fea sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique. 2e partie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 44: 335-449. [[year corrected from 1910 to 1909, see pp. 337, 353, 369, etc.; following Bonnet, contra Roewer]] -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. (1984b). A revision of the spider genus Cyrba (Araneae: Salticidae) with the description of a new presumptive pheromone dispersing organ. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 47(7): 445-481. doi: 10.5962/p.21842 -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. (1985). A revision of the spider genera Holcolaetis and Sonoita (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 48: 249-278. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Harten, A. van (2007). Additions to the knowledge of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of Yemen. Fauna of Arabia 23: 189-269. -- 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

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
2025-09-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c
2025-09-13	Species distribution update	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c	Old value
2024-12-30	Species distribution update	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value
2024-09-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024