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

Stenaelurillus termitophagus (Wesołowska & Cumming, 1999)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034673

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Described:

Distribution: Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa m (97/10631) - (Wesołowska & Cumming, 1999)
Paratype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa mm ff 3j (81/557, 85/132, 86/48, 87/544, 634, 684, 750, 757, 767, 774, 778, 805, 813, 979, 88/9, 132, 434-436, 451, 474, 478, 554, 677, 683, 699, 721, 859, 89/137, 145, 503, 92/517, 534, 97/1062) - (Wesołowska & Cumming, 1999)

Taxonomic References

Microheros termitophagus Wesołowska & Cumming, 1999: 204, f. 1-21 (Dmf) Original description

Stenaelurillus termitophagus Logunov & Azarkina, 2018: 105, f. 4-7, 11, 18-19, 472-487 (mf, T from Microheros)

Stenaelurillus termitophagus Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 65, f. 48A-G (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. (1999). The first termitivorous jumping spider (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11(5): 204-208. -- 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 Microheros to Stenaelurillus