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Genus: Pellolessertia Strand, 1929 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Pellolessertia castanea (Lessert, 1927)

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Described:

Distribution: Cameroon, Ethiopia, DR Congo, Uganda

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

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Syntype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 1m 7f (ARTO-0027937) - (Lessert, 1927)

Taxonomic References

Avakubia castanea Lessert, 1927: 442, f. 22-24 (Dmf) Original description

Pellolessertia castanea Strand, 1929: 14 (generic replacement name)

Pellolessertia castanea Prószyński, 1984a: 169 (f)

Pellolessertia castanea Szűts & Scharff, 2005: 364, f. 4A-E (m)

Pellolessertia castanea Prószyński, 2017b: 129, f. 56O (f)

Pellolessertia castanea Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 86, f. 55A-B (f)

References

Lessert, R. de (1927). Araignées du Congo (Premiere partie). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 34(17): 405-475. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.117612 -- 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

Strand, E. (1929). Zoological and palaeontological nomenclatorical notes. Acta Universitatis Latviensis 20: 1-29. -- Show included taxa

Szűts, T. & Scharff, N. (2005). Redescriptions of little known jumping spider genera (Araneae: Salticidae) from West Africa. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 51(4): 357-378. -- Show included taxa

Wiśniewski, K. & Wesołowska, W. (2024). Jumping spiders (Salticidae) of Uganda – revised list, new species and distributional data. European Journal of Taxonomy 952: 1-171. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2024.952.2647 -- 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
2024-09-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-09-06	Species distribution update	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value
2017-09-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b