Iranattus principalis (Wesołowska, 2000)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034711

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Described:

Distribution: Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Zimbabwe, South Africa


Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: National Museum of Zimbabwe (NMZ), Bulawayo, Zimbabwe m (A6781) - (Wesołowska, 2000a)
Taxonomic References
Monomotapa principalis Wesołowska, 2000a: 160, f. 42-46 (Dm) Original description
Monomotapa principalis Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011: 581, f. 96-98, 229-230 (m)
Iranattus principalis Prószyński, 2017b: 36, f. 14K, 17F (m, T from Monomotapa)
Iranattus principalis Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 47, f. 29A-D, 30A-D (Df)
Iranattus principalis Marathe et al., 2024a: 535, f. 2-19 (mf)
Iranattus principalis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c: 71, p. 70: f. 1-2, p. 71: f. 1-5 (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

Marathe, K., Tripathi, R., Sudhikumar, A. V. & Maddison, W. P. (2024a). Phylogenomic placement and revision of Iranattus Prószyński, 1992 jumping spiders (Salticidae, Plexippini, Plexippina). Zoosystematics and Evolution 100(2): 531-542. doi: 10.3897/zse.100.122034 -- 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. (2000a). New and little known species of jumping spiders from Zimbabwe (Araneae: Salticidae). Arnoldia Zimbabwe 10: 145-174. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2011). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from southern Nigeria. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 61(3): 553-619. doi: 10.3161/000345411X603409 -- 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

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
2025-09-13 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c
2025-09-13 Species distribution update Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c Old value
2024-05-15 New taxonomic reference entry Marathe et al., 2024a
2024-05-15 Species distribution update Marathe et al., 2024a Old value
2022-10-16 New taxonomic reference entry Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022
2022-10-16 First description of female Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 Old value
2022-10-16 Species distribution update Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 Old value
2017-09-12 New taxonomic reference entry Prószyński, 2017b
2017-09-12 Species transferred to new genus Prószyński, 2017b Species transferred from Monomotapa to Iranattus

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