World Spider Catalog

Genus: Ansienulina Wesołowska, 2015 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Ansienulina mirabilis Wesołowska, 2015

SPECIES | ACCEPTED | TYPE SPECIES

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047943

Permalink: https://wsc.nmbe.ch/lsid/urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047943

Described:

Distribution: Central African Rep., Kenya, Angola, Namibia

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Zoological Museum of Uppsala University (ZMUU/UUZM), Uppsala, Sweden m - (Wesołowska, 2015)
Paratype: Zoological Museum of Uppsala University (ZMUU/UUZM), Uppsala, Sweden 1m - (Wesołowska, 2015)
Paratype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 7m 14f - (Wesołowska, 2015)

Taxonomic References

Ansienulina mirabilis Wesołowska, 2015: 478, f. 1-14 (Dmf) Original description

Ansienulina mirabilis Prószyński, 2017b: 107, f. 47F, 48N (mf)

Ansienulina mirabilis Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026: 8, f. 4A-C (m)

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. (2015). Ansienulina, a new genus of jumping spiders from tropical Africa (Araneae: Salticidae: Thiratoscirtinae). African Invertebrates 56(2): 477-482. doi: 10.5733/afin.056.0216 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W., Russell-Smith, A. & Danflous, S. (2026). The jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from the southwestern region of Central African Republic. Zootaxa 5743(1): 1-74. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5743.1.1 -- 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.

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
2026-01-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026
2026-01-11	Species distribution update	Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026	Old value
2017-09-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b
2015-09-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska, 2015
2015-09-02	New species inserted	Wesołowska, 2015