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Genus: Saraina Wanless & Clark, 1975 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Saraina rubrofasciata Wanless & Clark, 1975

SPECIES | ACCEPTED | TYPE SPECIES

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036060

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Described:

Distribution: Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Rep.

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium m (126105) - (Wanless & Clark, 1975)
Paratype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 4f (1973.272-273) - (Wanless & Clark, 1975)

Taxonomic References

Saraina rubrofasciata Wanless & Clark, 1975: 289, f. 23-26 (Df) Original description

Saraina rubrofasciata Azarkina, 2009a: 297, f. 19-29 (f, Dm)

Saraina rubrofasciata Prószyński, 2017b: 107, f. 47P (mf)

Saraina rubrofasciata Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 102, f. 60A-B (f)

References

Azarkina, G. (2009a). A review of the West African genus Saraina (Araneae, Salticidae). ZooKeys 16: 291-300. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.16.235 -- 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

Wanless, F. R. & Clark, D. J. (1975). On a collection of spiders of the family Salticidae from the Ivory Coast (Araneae). Revue Zoologique Africaine 89: 273-296. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2022). Jumping spiders from Ivory Coast collected by J.-C. Ledoux (Araneae, Salticidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 841: 1-143. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2022.841.1943 -- 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
2026-01-12	Species distribution update	Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026	Old value
2025-10-01	Species distribution update	Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025	Old value
2022-10-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022
2017-09-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b