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

Afraflacilla venustula (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042467

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Described:

Distribution: Mozambique, South Africa

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa m (2009/672) - (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009)
Paratype: Kwazulu-Natal Museum (NMSA), Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 2m 1f (21831-21832) - (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009)
Paratype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa 10m 4f (2008/636, 2753) - (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009)
Paratype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium 14m 4f (224650) - (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009)

Taxonomic References

Pseudicius venustulus Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009: 76, f. 156-164 (Dmf) Original description

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

Afraflacilla venustula Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 8, f. 2A-C, 3A-C (m)

Afraflacilla venustula Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a: 15, p. 7: f. 6, p. 15: 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

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

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. & 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
2024-12-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-12-29	Species distribution update	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value
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