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

Langona trifoveolata (Lessert, 1927)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034206

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Described:

Distribution: Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, DR Congo, Mozambique

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

Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 2f (ARTO-0027957) - (Logunov & Azarkina, 2006)
Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m of Langona recta - (Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022)

Taxonomic References

Phlegra trifoveolata Lessert, 1927: 439, f. 21 (Df) Original description

Langona trifoveolata Hęciak & Prószyński, 1983: 211, f. 15, 27, 40 (f, T from Phlegra)

Phlegra trifoveolata Logunov & Azarkina, 2006: 743, f. 76-78 (f)

Langona recta Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 50, f. 32A-D (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056029]

Langona trifoveolata Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 44, f. 30C-E (f)

Langona recta Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025: 620, f. 21A-B (Df)

Langona trifoveolata Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025: 846, f. 34A-C (f, S of Langona recta)

References

Haddad, C. R., Wiśniewski, K. & Wesołowska, W. (2024). The jumping spiders of Mozambique (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 5560(1): 1-92. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5560.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Hęciak, S. & Prószyński, J. (1983). Remarks on Langona Simon (Araneae, Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 37: 207-233. -- 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

Logunov, D. V. & Azarkina, G. N. (2006). New species and records of Phlegra from Africa (Araneae, Salticidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 113(4): 727-748. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.80371 -- 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. & Russell-Smith, A. (2022). Jumping spiders from Ivory Coast collected by J.-C. Ledoux (Araneae, Salticidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 841: 1-143. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2022.841.1943 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Henrard, A. (2025). New data on the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from the Nimba Mountains, Guinea. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 75(3): 811-912. doi: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2025.75.3.010 -- 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
2025-10-01	Species synonymy	Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025		Langona recta synonymized with Langona trifoveolata
2025-10-01	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025
2025-10-01	Species distribution update	Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025	Old value
2024-12-30	New taxonomic reference entry	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-12-30	Species distribution update	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value