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Genus: Afraflacilla Berland & Millot, 1941 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Afraflacilla altera (Wesołowska, 2000)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035773

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Described:

Distribution: Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: National Museum of Zimbabwe (NMZ), Bulawayo, Zimbabwe m (A9764) - (Wesołowska, 2000a)
Allotype: National Museum of Zimbabwe (NMZ), Bulawayo, Zimbabwe f (A9764) - (Wesołowska, 2000a)

Taxonomic References

Pseudicius alter Wesołowska, 2000a: 169, f. 67-73 (Dmf) Original description

Pseudicius alter Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009: 74, f. 152-155 (m)

Afraflacilla altera Prószyński, 2017b: 43 (T from Pseudicius)

Afraflacilla altera Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a: 8, p. 7: f. 5, p. 8: f. 1-6 (mf)

References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Van der Walt, V., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2025a). The Salticidae of South Africa. Part 1 (A-Den). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 63 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15222559 -- 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

Wesołowska, W. (2000a). New and little known species of jumping spiders from Zimbabwe (Araneae: Salticidae). Arnoldia Zimbabwe 10: 145-174. -- 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	Comment
2025-04-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a
2025-04-21	Species distribution update	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a	Old value
2017-09-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b
2017-09-09	Species transferred to new genus	Prószyński, 2017b		Species transferred from Pseudicius to Afraflacilla