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

Holcolaetis zuluensis Lawrence, 1937

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033929

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Described:

Distribution: Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa

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

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Taxonomic References

Holcolaetis zuluensis Lawrence, 1937: 255, f. 23 (Df) Original description

Holcolaetis zuluensis Roewer, 1965: 28, f. 25c (f)

Holcolaetis zuluensis Wanless, 1985: 259, f. 6A-G, 16C (mf)

Holcolaetis zuluensis Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009: 47, f. 83-86, 240-241 (mf)

Holcolaetis zuluensis Ramírez, 2014: 227, f. 155C (m)

Holcolaetis zuluensis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c: 48, p. 46: f. 1, p. 48: f. 1-7 (mf)

References

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

Lawrence, R. F. (1937). A collection of Arachnida from Zululand. Annals of the Natal Museum 8: 211-273, pl. 13. -- Show included taxa

Ramírez, M. J. (2014). The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 390: 1-374. doi: 10.1206/821.1 (External link) -- 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

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. & 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
2025-09-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c
2016-10-01	Species distribution update	Dawidowicz & Wesołowska, 2016	Old value
2014-07-25	New taxonomic reference entry	Ramírez, 2014