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Genus: Mexcala G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1902 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Mexcala rufa G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1902

SPECIES | ACCEPTED | TYPE SPECIES

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034666

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Described:

Distribution: Namibia, Botswana, South Africa

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m (516) - (Wesołowska, 2009a)

Taxonomic References

Mexcala rufa Peckham & Peckham, 1902: 333 (Dm) Original description

Mexcala rufa Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 247, pl. 29, f. 1 (m)

Mexcala rufa Prószyński, 1984a: 83 (m)

Mexcala rufa Wesołowska, 2009a: 176, f. 95-99 (m)

Mexcala rufa Prószyński, 2017b: 31, f. 13J (m)

Mexcala rufa Dippenaar-Schoeman & Uys, 2025b: 23, f. 1-15, 19 (m)

References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. & Uys, W. (2025b). More information on the jumping spider Mexcala rufa G.W. Peckham & E.G. Peckham, 1902 (Araneae: Salticidae) from South Africa. SANSA Newsletter 43: 23-25. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15753474 -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1902). Some new genera and species of Attidae from South Africa. Psyche 9(312): 330-335. doi: 10.1155/1902/13502 -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1903). New species of the family Attidae from South Africa, with notes on the distribution of the genera found in the Ethiopian region. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 14(1): 173-278, pl. 19-29. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1984a). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae). Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej w Siedlcach 2: 1-177. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2017b). Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 12: 1-133. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.12.1 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (2009a). A revision of the spider genus Mexcala Peckham et Peckham, 1902 (Araneae: Salticidae). Genus 20: 149-186. -- 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
2025-06-28	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman & Uys, 2025b
2025-06-28	Species distribution update	Dippenaar-Schoeman & Uys, 2025b	Old value
2017-09-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b