Vicirionessa besanconi (Berland & Millot, 1941)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036737

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Described:

Distribution: Guinea, Nigeria, Central African Rep.


Type Repository Provide information
Taxonomic References
Viciria besanconi Berland & Millot, 1941: 378, f. 76A-B (Df) Original description
Brancus besanconi Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011: 565, f. 40-42, 219 (f, T from Viciria)
Telamonia besanconi Bodner & Maddison, 2012: 225 (T from Brancus)
Brancus besanconi Prószyński, 2017b: 36, f. 16I-J (f, T from Telamonia)
Vicirionessa besanconi Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 130 (T from Brancus)
Vicirionessa besanconi Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026: 59, f. 53A-E (f)
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

Bodner, M. R. & Maddison, W. P. (2012). The biogeography and age of salticid spider radiations (Araneae: Salticidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65(1): 213-240. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.06.005 -- 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

Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2011). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from southern Nigeria. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 61(3): 553-619. doi: 10.3161/000345411X603409 -- 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

Wesołowska, W., Russell-Smith, A. & Danflous, S. (2026). The jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from the southwestern region of Central African Republic. Zootaxa 5743(1): 1-74. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5743.1.1 -- 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.

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 New taxonomic reference entry Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026
2026-01-12 Species distribution update Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026 Old value
2022-10-17 New taxonomic reference entry Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022
2022-10-17 Species transferred to new genus Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 Species transferred from Brancus to Vicirionessa
2017-09-11 New taxonomic reference entry Prószyński, 2017b
2017-09-11 Species transferred to new genus Prószyński, 2017b Species transferred from Telamonia to Brancus

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