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

Afraflacilla sengwaensis (Wesołowska & Cumming, 2011)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:044146

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Described:

Distribution: Zimbabwe

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

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Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium m (229822) - (Wesołowska & Cumming, 2011)

Taxonomic References

Pseudicius sengwaensis Wesołowska & Cumming, 2011: 93, f. 70-74 (Dm) Original description

Afraflacilla sengwaensis Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 8 (T from Pseudicius)

References

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. & 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
2024-12-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-12-29	Species transferred to new genus	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024		Species transferred from Pseudicius to Afraflacilla