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

Stenaelurillus guttatus (Wesołowska & Cumming, 2002)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:038263

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Described:

Distribution: Namibia, Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique

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

Type Repository Provide information

Paratype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa 1m 1f (2002/960) - (Marais et al., 2013)
Paratype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium 1m 1f (152151) - (Wesołowska & Cumming, 2002)
Paratype: California Academy of Sciences (CAS), San Francisco, USA 2f - (Wesołowska & Cumming, 2002)
Paratype: National Museum of Namibia, Windhoek (NMNW) [= State Museum of Namibia/SMN], Namibia 1m (43049) - (Wesołowska & Cumming, 2002)
Paratype: Museum of Natural History, University of Wroclaw (MNHW), Poland 4m 3f 1j - (Wesołowska & Cumming, 2002)
Paratype: National Museum of Zimbabwe (NMZ), Bulawayo, Zimbabwe 6m 9f 3j (A 2297, 2571, 2617, 2691, 3106, 3525, 8586, 9013, 10875) - (Wesołowska & Cumming, 2002)
Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium m (211425) - (Wesołowska & Cumming, 2002)

Taxonomic References

Mashonarus guttatus Wesołowska & Cumming, 2002: 167, f. 1-19 (Dmf) Original description

Stenaelurillus guttatus Logunov & Azarkina, 2018: 43, f. 8-9, 16-17, 165-183 (mf, T from Mashonarus)

Stenaelurillus guttatus Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 63, f. 46A-D (mf)

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

Logunov, D. V. & Azarkina, G. N. (2018). Redefinition and partial revision of the genus Stenaelurillus Simon, 1886 (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 430: 1-126. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2018.430 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Cumming, M. S. (2002). Mashonarus guttatus, gen. and sp. n., the second termitivorous jumping spider from Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 12: 165-170. -- 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
2024-12-30	New taxonomic reference entry	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-12-30	Species distribution update	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value
2018-05-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Logunov & Azarkina, 2018
2018-05-02	Species transferred to new genus	Logunov & Azarkina, 2018		Species transferred from Mashonarus to Stenaelurillus
2018-05-02	Species distribution update	Logunov & Azarkina, 2018	Old value