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

Phlegra karoo Wesołowska, 2006

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:040871

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Described:

Distribution: Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: National Museum of Namibia, Windhoek (NMNW) [= State Museum of Namibia/SMN], Namibia m (45186) - (Wesołowska, 2006b)
Paratype: National Museum of Namibia, Windhoek (NMNW) [= State Museum of Namibia/SMN], Namibia 3m (44498, 45200, 45243) - (Wesołowska, 2006b)
Paratype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium 1m - (Wesołowska, 2006b)
Paratype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa 1m (2005/139) - (Marais et al., 2013)

Taxonomic References

Phlegra karoo Wesołowska, 2006b: 250, f. 102-108 (Dm) Original description

Phlegra karoo Haddad & Wesołowska, 2011: 104, f. 138-139, 151-159 (m, Df)

Phlegra karoo Wesołowska & Cumming, 2011: 88, f. 46-50 (mf)

Phlegra karoo Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 54, f. 38A-C (m)

References

Haddad, C. R. & Wesołowska, W. (2011). New species and new records of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from central South Africa. African Invertebrates 52(1): 51-134. doi: 10.5733/afin.052.0105 -- Show included taxa

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

Wesołowska, W. (2006b). Jumping spiders from the Brandberg massif in Namibia (Araneae: Salticidae). African Entomology 14: 225-256. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Cumming, M. S. (2011). New species and records of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) from Sengwa Wildlife Research Area in Zimbabwe. Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 7: 75-104. -- 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