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Genus: Nigorella Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Nigorella hirsuta Wesołowska, 2009

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042969

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Described:

Distribution: Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium m (229819) - (Wesołowska, 2009c)
Paratype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa 3m (2010/199, 3835) - (Wesołowska, 2009c)
Paratype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium 3m 1f - (Wesołowska, 2009c)

Taxonomic References

Nigorella plebeja Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008: 35 (T from Pachypoessa; misidentified per Wesołowska, 2009c: 521)

Nigorella plebeja Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009: 66, f. 127-131, 220 (mf; misidentified per Wesołowska, 2009c: 521)

Nigorella hirsuta Wesołowska, 2009c: 521, f. 16-25, 31, 33 (Dmf) Original description

Nigorella hirsuta Prószyński, 2018b: 157, f. 16B-B1, 17J-K (mf)

Nigorella hirsuta Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 50, f. 34A-B (f)

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

Prószyński, J. (2018b). Review of genera Evarcha and Nigorella, with comments on Emertonius, Padilothorax [sic], Stagetillus, and description of five new genera and two new species (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 16: 130-179. doi: 10.37828/em.2018.16.12 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Tomasiewicz, B. (2008). New species and records of Ethiopian jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 4: 3-59. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (2009c). A revision of the African spider genus Nigorella (Araneae: Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 59: 517-525. doi: 10.3161/000345409x484900 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Haddad, C. R. (2009). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Ndumo Game Reserve, Maputaland, South Africa. African Invertebrates 50(1): 13-103. doi: 10.5733/afin.050.0102 -- 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
2024-12-30	New taxonomic reference entry	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-12-30	Species distribution update	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value
2018-04-27	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2018b