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

Afraflacilla arabica Wesołowska & van Harten, 1994

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039432

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Described:

Distribution: Egypt, Yemen, Iran, Afghanistan

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium m (201306) - (Wesołowska & van Harten, 1994)

Taxonomic References

Afraflacilla arabica Wesołowska & van Harten, 1994: 4, f. 6-10 (Dm) Original description

Pseudicius arabicus Logunov & Zamanpoore, 2005: 227, f. 34, 38-39 (m, Df, removed from S of Pseudicius braunsi, rejecting Wesołowska, 1996: 38)

Pseudicius arabicus Wesołowska & van Harten, 2007: 252 (males from Yemen and Afghanistan are not conspecific)

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

References

Logunov, D. V. & Zamanpoore, M. (2005). Salticidae (Araneae) of Afghanistan: an annotated check-list, with descriptions of four new species and three new synonymies. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 13(6): 217-232. -- 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. & 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. & Harten, A. van (2007). Additions to the knowledge of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of Yemen. Fauna of Arabia 23: 189-269. -- 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.

Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

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
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
2017-02-02	Species distribution update	Logunov et al., 2007	Old value
2015-07-13	Species distribution update	Logunov, 2015a	Old value