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Genus: Festucula Simon, 1901 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Festucula leroyae Azarkina & Foord, 2014

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047496

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Described:

Distribution: Botswana, South Africa

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa m (83/180) - (Azarkina & Foord, 2014)
Paratype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa mm ff - (Azarkina & Foord, 2014)
Paratype: National Museum, Bloemfontein (NMBA), South Africa 2f (6242) - (Azarkina & Foord, 2014)
Paratype: Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals (ISEA), Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia 9m 6f (000.853) - (Azarkina & Foord, 2014)

Taxonomic References

Festucula leroyae Azarkina & Foord, 2014: 366, f. 8-9, 19, 88-103 (Dmf) Original description

Festucula leroyae Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025b: 41, f. 1-7 (mf)

References

Azarkina, G. N. & Foord, S. H. (2014). A revision of the Afrotropical species of Festucula Simon, 1901 (Araneae: Salticidae). African Invertebrates 55(2): 351-375. doi: 10.5733/afin.055.0201 -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Van der Walt, V., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2025b). The Salticidae of South Africa. Part 2 (E-Ha). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 65 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15266589 -- 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
2025-04-24	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025b
2015-03-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Azarkina & Foord, 2014
2015-03-17	New species inserted	Azarkina & Foord, 2014