Tusitala barbata G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1902

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036683

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Described:

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


Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland m (ARTO-0027906) of Tusitala barbata longipalpis - (Lessert, 1925a)
  • Holotype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland m (ARTO-0027907) of Tusitala emertoni - (Lessert, 1925a)
  • Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 1f (ARTO-0027908) of Tusitala emertoni - (Lessert, 1925a)
Taxonomic References
Tusitala barbata Peckham & Peckham, 1902: 330 (Dm) Original description
Monclova braunii Peckham & Peckham, 1902: 331 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066064]
Tusitala barbata Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 243, pl. 28, f. 2 (m)
Tusitala braunsii Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 245, pl. 28, f. 1 (f, lapsus)
Tusitala barbata Simon, 1903a: 802, f. 940-943
Tusitala emertoni Lessert, 1925a: 514, f. 98-100 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:066065]
Tusitala barbata longipalpis Lessert, 1925a: 517, f. 101-103 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036684]
Tusitala barbata Lessert, 1927: 461 (S of Tusitala barbata longipalpis, T. brauni, T. emertoni, T. hirsuta [revalidated by Próchniewicz, 1989: 225] and T. sansibarica [rejected by Próchniewicz, 1989: 225, see T. hirsuta])
Tusitala barbata longipalpis Caporiacco, 1940c: 867, f. 57 (Dff may belong to Heliophanus per Azarkina & Foord, 2015: 299)
Tusitala barbata Berland & Millot, 1941: 395
Tusitala barbata Prószyński, 1984a: 149 (mf)
Tusitala barbata Wesołowska & Cumming, 2008: 222, f. 192-195 (mf)
Tusitala barbata Azarkina & Foord, 2015: 293, f. 6, 8, 11, 31-58 (mf, S of Tusitala barbata longipalpis confirmed)
Tusitala barbata Prószyński, 2017b: 33, f. 15L (mf)
Tusitala barbata Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025: 901, f. 88A-B (f)
References

Azarkina, G. N. & Foord, S. H. (2015). A review of three Tusitala (Araneae: Salticidae) species from southern Africa, with a new synonymy and description of a new species from Botswana. African Invertebrates 56(2): 285-307. doi: 10.5733/afin.056.0204 -- Show included taxa

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

Caporiacco, L. di (1940c). Aracnidi raccolte nella Reg. dei Laghi Etiopici della Fossa Galla. Atti della Reale Accademia d'Italia 11: 767-873. -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1925a). Araignées du Kilimandjaro et du Merou (suite). 5. Salticidae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 31: 429-528. -- 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

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1902). Some new genera and species of Attidae from South Africa. Psyche 9(312): 330-335. doi: 10.1155/1902/13502 -- 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. (1984a). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae). Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej w Siedlcach 2: 1-177. -- 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. (1903a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 669-1080. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[second pdf with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- 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. & Henrard, A. (2025). New data on the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from the Nimba Mountains, Guinea. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 75(3): 811-912. doi: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2025.75.3.010 -- 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 Species distribution update Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026 Old value
2025-10-01 New taxonomic reference entry Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025
2025-10-01 Species distribution update Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025 Old value
2024-12-30 Species distribution update Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 Old value
2024-09-06 Species distribution update Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 Old value
2017-09-21 New taxonomic reference entry Prószyński, 2017b
2015-09-07 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Azarkina & Foord, 2015 Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Tusitala hirsuta Peckham & Peckham, 1902
2015-09-07 Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon Azarkina & Foord, 2015 Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Tusitala hirsuta Peckham & Peckham, 1902
2015-09-07 New taxonomic reference entry Azarkina & Foord, 2015
2015-09-07 Species synonymy Azarkina & Foord, 2015 Tusitala barbata longipalpis synonymized with Tusitala barbata

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