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Genus: Tusitala G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1902 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Tusitala lutzi Lessert, 1927

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036688

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Described:

Distribution: Ivory Coast, DR Congo

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA m (without pedipalps) - (Wesołowska, 2012a)
Holotype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland m (ARTO-0027909, pedipalps only) - (Wesołowska, 2012a)

Taxonomic References

Tusitala lutzi Lessert, 1927: 462, f. 33-35 (Dm) Original description

Tusitala lutzi Wesołowska, 2012a: 218, f. 55-64 (m, Df)

Tusitala lutzi Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 128, f. 76A-E (m)

References

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

Wesołowska, W. (2012a). Redescriptions of some jumping spiders described by R. Lessert from Central Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). Genus 23(2): 201-221. -- 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

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
2022-10-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022
2022-10-17	Species distribution update	Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022	Old value