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Genus: Zulunigma Wesołowska & Cumming, 2011 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Zulunigma incognita (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042457

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Described:

Distribution: Zimbabwe, South Africa

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium (database excerpt, Feb. 2019) (224646) -
Holotype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa f (2009/664) - (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009)

Taxonomic References

Aenigma incognita Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009: 20, f. 10-11, 210 (Df) Original description

Zulunigma incognita Wesołowska & Cumming, 2011: 99, f. 89-91 (f)

Zulunigma incognita Prószyński, 2017b: 129, f. 57B (f)

References

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. & Haddad, C. R. (2009). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Ndumo Game Reserve, Maputaland, South Africa. African Invertebrates 50(1): 13-103. doi: 10.5733/afin.050.0102 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Cumming, M. S. (2011). New species and records of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) from Sengwa Wildlife Research Area in Zimbabwe. Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 7: 75-104. -- 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
2020-05-26	Species distribution update	Wesołowska & Cumming, 2011	Old value
2017-09-18	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b