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Genus: Phlegra Simon, 1876 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Phlegra albostriata Simon, 1901

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035561

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Described:

Distribution: South Africa, Lesotho, Mozambique

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

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Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 2m (20007) - (Clark, 1974)

Taxonomic References

Phlegra albostriata Simon, 1901g: 73 (Dm) Original description

Phlegra albostriata Lessert, 1936: 294, f. 91 (m)

Phlegra albostriata Wesołowska & Haddad, 2014: 257, f. 94-97 (m)

References

Lessert, R. de (1936). Araignées de l'Afrique orientale portugaise, recueillies par MM. P. Lesne et B.-B. Cott. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 43: 207-306. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.144393 -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1901g). Etudes arachnologiques. 31e Mémoire. L. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Salticidae (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 70(1): 66-76. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Haddad, C. R. (2014). An overview of the jumping spiders of Lesotho (Araneae: Salticidae), with descriptions of six new species. African Invertebrates 55(2): 229-268. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7680935 -- 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
2014-09-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska & Haddad, 2014
2014-09-29	Species distribution update	Wesołowska & Haddad, 2014	Old value