World Spider Catalog

Genus: Rafalus Prószyński, 1999 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Rafalus christophori Prószyński, 1999

SPECIES | ACCEPTED | TYPE SPECIES

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035872

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Described:

Distribution: Egypt, Israel

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

Type Repository Provide information

Allotype: National Natural History Collections, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (HUJ), Israel f - (Prószyński, 1999)
Paratype: National Natural History Collections, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (HUJ), Israel 6m 1f - (Prószyński, 1999)
Holotype: National Natural History Collections, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (HUJ), Israel m (14237) - (Prószyński, 1999)

Taxonomic References

Rafalus christophori Prószyński, 1999: 91, f. 1-12 (Dmf) Original description

Rafalus christophori Prószyński, 2003: 158, f. 638-649 (mf)

Rafalus christophori Prószyński, 2017b: 97, f. 43P (mf)

Rafalus christophori Azarkina, 2020: 3, f. 4-7, 23-26 (m)

References

Azarkina, G. N. (2020). Manzuma gen. nov., a new aelurilline genus of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 611: 1-47. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2020.611 -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1999). Description of Rafalus gen. n. (Aranei: Salticidae), with special reference to the Near East fauna. Arthropoda Selecta 8(2): 89-101. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2003). Salticidae (Araneae) of the Levant. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 53: 1-180. -- 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

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
2020-03-08	New taxonomic reference entry	Azarkina, 2020
2017-09-18	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b