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Genus: Manzuma Azarkina, 2020 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Manzuma nigritibiis (Caporiacco, 1941)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035877

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Described:

Distribution: Ethiopia, Yemen

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy m (493) - (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium f (201301) of Aelurillus reconditus - (Azarkina, 2020)

Taxonomic References

Saitis nigritibiis Caporiacco, 1941b: 161, f. 63 (Dm; specific epithet is a noun) Original description

Aelurillus nigritibiis Prószyński, 1987: 1 (m, T from Saitis)

Aelurillus reconditus Wesołowska & van Harten, 1994: 2, f. 3-5 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032204]

Rafalus nigritibiis Prószyński, 1999: 101, f. 41-42 (m, T from Aelurillus)

Rafalus lymphus Wesołowska & van Harten, 2007: 256, f. 193-195 (m; misidentified per Azarkina, 2020: 27)

Manzuma nigritibia Azarkina, 2020: 27, f. 131-153 (mf, T from Rafalus, S of Aelurillus reconditus)

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

Caporiacco, L. di (1941b). Arachnida (esc. Acarina). Araneae. Missione Biologica Sagan-Omo, Reale Accademia d’Italia, Roma 12(Zoologia 6): 46-175. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1987). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae 2. Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoly Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej Siedlcach, 172 pp. -- 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

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.

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	Taxonomic reference added from other taxon		Old value
2020-03-08	Species synonymy	Azarkina, 2020		Manzuma reconditus synonymized with Manzuma nigritibiis
2020-03-08	Species distribution update	Azarkina, 2020	Old value
2020-03-08	New taxonomic reference entry	Azarkina, 2020
2020-03-08	Species transferred to new genus	Azarkina, 2020		Species transferred from Rafalus to Manzuma