Sonoita lightfooti G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903

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Described:

Distribution: Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, India


Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m - (Wanless, 1985)
Taxonomic References
Sonoita lightfootii Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 184, pl. 19, f. 4 (Dm) Original description
Sonoita lightfooti Wanless, 1985: 267, f. 11A-L, 13A-B, 14A-B, 16F (m, Df)
Sonoita lightfooti Wijesinghe, 1992: 12, f. 17 (m)
Sonoita lightfooti Wesołowska & Cumming, 2008: 212, f. 157-163 (mf)
Sonoita lightfooti Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008: 48, f. 189-194, 213-214 (m)
Sonoita aff. lightfooti Maddison et al., 2014: 59, f. 6 (f)
Sonoita lightfooti Prószyński, 2017b: 119, f. 52Q, 53O (mf)
Sonoita cf. lightfooti Caleb et al., 2025a: 79, f. 1A-C, 2A-H, 3A-B (m)
Sonoita lightfooti Parmar, Pandya & Chauhan, 2026: 28242, f. 1-6 (m)
References

Caleb, J. T. D., Sudhin, P. P., Nisha, B. G., Maliye, C. C., Sanap, R. V., Kadam, G. & Sen, S. (2025a). Novel additions to the jumping spider subfamily Spartaeinae Wanless, 1984 from India (Araneae, Salticidae, Spartaeini). European Journal of Taxonomy 997: 77-98. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2025.997.2925 -- Show included taxa

Maddison, W. P., Li, D. Q., Bodner, M., Zhang, J. X., Xu, X., Liu, Q. Q. & Liu, F. X. (2014). The deep phylogeny of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae). ZooKeys 440: 57-87. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.440.7891 -- Show included taxa

Parmar, S. I., Pandya, P. J. & Chauhan, V. U. (2026). New distribution record of Sonoita lightfooti G.W. Peckham & E.G. Peckham, 1903 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Gujarat, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 18(1): 28239-28241. doi: 10.11609/jott.10290.18.1.28239-28241 -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1903). New species of the family Attidae from South Africa, with notes on the distribution of the genera found in the Ethiopian region. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 14(1): 173-278, pl. 19-29. -- 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. (1985). A revision of the spider genera Holcolaetis and Sonoita (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 48: 249-278. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Cumming, M. S. (2008). Taxonomy and natural history of a species rich assemblage of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae); a long-term study of a suburban site in Zimbabwe. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 58: 167-230. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Tomasiewicz, B. (2008). New species and records of Ethiopian jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 4: 3-59. -- Show included taxa

Wijesinghe, D. P. (1992). A new genus of jumping spider from Borneo with notes on the spartaeine palp (Araneae: Salticidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 40(1): 9-19. -- 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
2026-01-29 New taxonomic reference entry Parmar, Pandya & Chauhan, 2026
2026-01-29 Species distribution update Parmar, Pandya & Chauhan, 2026 Old value
2025-06-12 New taxonomic reference entry Caleb et al., 2025a
2025-06-12 Species distribution update Caleb et al., 2025a Old value
2024-12-30 Species distribution update Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 Old value
2017-09-21 New taxonomic reference entry Prószyński, 2017b
2014-09-29 New taxonomic reference entry Maddison et al., 2014

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