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

Phlegra pusilla Wesołowska & van Harten, 1994

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035601

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Described:

Distribution: Senegal to Zimbabwe, Yemen

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 (database excerpt, Feb. 2019) (201322) -

Taxonomic References

Phlegra pusilla Wesołowska & van Harten, 1994: 70, f. 140-143 (Dm) Original description

Phlegra nuda Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000: 84, f. 225-229 (mf; misidentified per Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008: 41)

Phlegra pusilla Logunov & Azarkina, 2006: 737, f. 41-53 (m, Df)

Phlegra pusilla Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008: 41, f. 158-163 (mf)

Phlegra pusilla Wesołowska & Cumming, 2011: 91, f. 59-60 (f)

References

Logunov, D. V. & Azarkina, G. N. (2006). New species and records of Phlegra from Africa (Araneae, Salticidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 113(4): 727-748. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.80371 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Harten, A. van (1994). The jumping spiders (Salticidae, Araneae) of Yemen. Yemeni-German Plant Protection Project Sana'a, 86 pp. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2000). Jumping spiders from Mkomazi Game Reserve in Tanzania (Araneae Salticidae). Tropical Zoology 13(1): 11-127. doi: 10.1080/03946975.2000.10531126 -- 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. & 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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As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

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]

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