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

Afraflacilla elegans (Wesołowska & Cumming, 2008)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041652

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Described:

Distribution: Zimbabwe, South Africa

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

Type Repository Provide information

Paratype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium 1m 1f (222629, 222634) - (Wesołowska & Cumming, 2008)
Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium m (222635) - (Wesołowska & Cumming, 2008)

Taxonomic References

Pseudicius elegans Wesołowska & Cumming, 2008: 208, f. 135-143 (Dmf) Original description

Pseudicius elegans Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013: 216, f. 125-126 (f)

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

Afraflacilla elegans Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a: 11, p. 7: f. 7, p. 11: f. 1-8 (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. & Cumming, M. S. (2008). Taxonomy and natural history of a species rich assemblage of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae); a long-term study of a suburban site in Zimbabwe. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 58: 167-230. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Haddad, C. R. (2013). New data on the jumping spiders of South Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). African Invertebrates 54(1): 177-240. doi: 10.5733/afin.054.0111 -- 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	Comment
2025-04-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a
2017-09-10	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b
2017-09-10	Species transferred to new genus	Prószyński, 2017b	Species transferred from Pseudicius to Afraflacilla