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Genus: Schenkelia Lessert, 1927 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Schenkelia modesta Lessert, 1927

SPECIES | ACCEPTED | TYPE SPECIES

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036098

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Described:

Distribution: Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Rep., DR Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f (lost) of Schenkelia gertschi - (Wesołowska & Edwards, 2012)
Syntype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 5m 5f (ARTO-0027904) - (Prószyński, 1968a)
Holotype: Zoological Museum of Uppsala University (ZMUU/UUZM), Uppsala, Sweden m of Plexippus fibulatus - (Dawidowicz & Wesołowska, 2016)
Paratype: Zoological Museum of Uppsala University (ZMUU/UUZM), Uppsala, Sweden 2m of Plexippus fibulatus - (Dawidowicz & Wesołowska, 2016)

Taxonomic References

Schenkelia modesta Lessert, 1927: 466, f. 36-37 (Dmf) Original description

Schenkelia gertschi Berland & Millot, 1941: 395, f. 87c (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036096]

Schenkelia modesta Prószyński, 1968a: 217, f. 1-9 (mf)

Schenkelia modesta Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000: 94, f. 256-260 (m)

Schenkelia modesta Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009: 80, f. 170-175 (mf)

Schenkelia modesta Wesołowska & Edwards, 2012: 759 (S of Schenkelia gertschi)

Plexippus fibulatus Dawidowicz & Wesołowska, 2016: 454, f. 69-70, 107 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:048734]

Schenkelia modesta Prószyński, 2017b: 26, f. 11S (mf)

Plexippus fibulatus Prószyński, 2017c: 57, f. 2O, 4P (m)

Schenkelia modesta Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 126 (S of Plexippus fibulatus)

References

Berland, L. & Millot, J. (1941). Les araignées de l'Afrique Occidentale Française I.-Les salticides. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (N.S.) 12: 297-423. -- Show included taxa

Dawidowicz, A. & Wesołowska, W. (2016). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of Kenya collected by Åke Holm. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 66(3): 437-466. doi: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2016.66.3.010 -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1927). Araignées du Congo (Premiere partie). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 34(17): 405-475. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.117612 -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1968a). Redescriptions of type-species of genera of Salticidae (Araneida). IV-V. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 26: 217-225. -- 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

Prószyński, J. (2017c). Remarks on the genus Plexippus C. L. Koch, 1846 (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 13: 39-69. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.13.5 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2000). Jumping spiders from Mkomazi Game Reserve in Tanzania (Araneae Salticidae). Tropical Zoology 13(1): 11-127. doi: 10.1080/03946975.2000.10531126 -- 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

Wesołowska, W. & Edwards, G. B. (2012). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Calabar area (SE Nigeria). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 62(4): 733-772. doi: 10.3161/000345412X659786 -- Show included taxa

Wiśniewski, K. & Wesołowska, W. (2024). Jumping spiders (Salticidae) of Uganda – revised list, new species and distributional data. European Journal of Taxonomy 952: 1-171. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2024.952.2647 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

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
2026-01-12	Species distribution update	Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026	Old value
2024-09-06	Species distribution update	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value
2024-09-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-09-06	Species synonymy	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024		Schenkelia fibulata synonymized with Schenkelia modesta
2017-09-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b