Vicirionessa fuscimana (Simon, 1903)

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Described:

Distribution: Central African Rep., Equatorial Guinea


Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m (22129) - (Clark, 1974)
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m of Vicirionessa prenanti - (Berland & Millot, 1941)
  • Holotype: Florida State Collection of Arthropods (FSCA), Gainesville, USA m of Vicirionessa lacrimosa - (Wesołowska & Edwards, 2012)
Taxonomic References
Viciria fuscimana Simon, 1903e: 118 (Dm) Original description
Viciria fuscimana Clark, 1974: 23, f. 35-36, 38-39 (mf f. 37 see Vicirionessa albocincta)
"Viciria" fuscimana Prószyński, 1984c: 433 (should be transferred to other genus)
Brancus fuscimanus Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011: 566 (T from Viciriaf f. 43-44, 220 see Vicirionessa albocincta)
Telamonia fuscimana Bodner & Maddison, 2012: 225 (T from Brancus)
Brancus fuscimanus Prószyński, 2017b: 36 (T from Telamonia; f f. 16K-L see Vicirionessa albocincta)
Vicirionessa fuscimana Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 133 (T from Brancus, S of Brancus lacrimosus [rejected by Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025: 902, see Vicirionessa albocincta]; mf f. 79A-F see V. albocincta)
Vicirionessa fuscimana Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 156 (S of Vicirionessa prenanti [rejected by Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025: 902, see V. albocincta])
Vicirionessa fuscimana Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026: 60, f. 54A-C, 55C (m)
References

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

Clark, D. J. (1974). Notes on Simon's types of African Salticidae. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 3(1): 11-27. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1984c). Remarks on Viciria and Telamonia (Araneae, Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 37: 417-436. -- 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

Simon, E. (1903e). Arachnides de la Guinée espagnole. Memorias de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural 1(3): 65-124. -- 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

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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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
2025-10-02 Taxonomic reference update Old value
2025-10-02 Taxonomic reference update Old value
2025-10-02 Taxonomic reference update Old value
2025-10-01 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Vicirionessa albocincta (Thorell, 1899)
2025-10-01 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Vicirionessa albocincta (Thorell, 1899)
2025-10-01 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Vicirionessa albocincta (Thorell, 1899)
2025-10-01 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Vicirionessa albocincta (Thorell, 1899)
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 Vicirionessa prenanti synonymized with Vicirionessa fuscimana
2022-10-17 Species synonymy Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 Vicirionessa lacrimosa synonymized with Vicirionessa fuscimana
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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