Tusitala lyrata (Simon, 1903)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032553

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Described:

Distribution: Guinea, DR Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique


Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m (21901) - (Clark, 1974)
Taxonomic References
Blaisea lyrata Simon, 1903a: 679, f. 804 (m)
Blaisea lyrata Simon, 1903f: 723 (Dm) Original description
Blaisea bicalcarata Simon, 1909f: 429 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032552]
Blaisea bicalcarata Berland & Millot, 1941: 358, f. 58 (m)
Tusitala lyrata Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2003: 719, f. 1-19 (m, Df, T from Blaisea, S of Blaisea bicalcarata)
Tusitala lyrata Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 79, f. 56A-C (mf)
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

Haddad, C. R., Wiśniewski, K. & Wesołowska, W. (2024). The jumping spiders of Mozambique (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 5560(1): 1-92. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5560.1.1 -- 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

Simon, E. (1903f). Etudes arachnologiques. 33e Mémoire. LII. Etude sur les arachnides recueillis par M. le Lieutenant de vaisseau Blaise dans l'estuaire du Gabon, pendant qu'il commandait la canonnière "la Cigogne" au Congo français (1894–1896). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 71(4, 1902): 719-725. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1909f). Arachnides recueillis par L. Fea sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique. 2e partie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 44: 335-449. [[year corrected from 1910 to 1909, see pp. 337, 353, 369, etc.; following Bonnet, contra Roewer]] -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Tomasiewicz, B. (2003). Blaisea Simon, 1902 synonymised with Tusitala Peckham et Peckham, 1902 (Araneae: Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 53: 719-722. -- 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
2024-12-30 New taxonomic reference entry Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-12-30 Species distribution update Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 Old value

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