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Genus: Kakameganula Wesołowska, 2020 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Kakameganula holmi (Dawidowicz & Wesołowska, 2016)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED | TYPE SPECIES

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:048730

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Described:

Distribution: Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique

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 - (Dawidowicz & Wesołowska, 2016)
Paratype: Zoological Museum of Uppsala University (ZMUU/UUZM), Uppsala, Sweden 1f - (Dawidowicz & Wesołowska, 2016)

Taxonomic References

Kakamega holmi Dawidowicz & Wesołowska, 2016: 446, f. 35-41, 101-103 (Dmf) Original description

Kakameganula holmi Wesołowska, 2020a: 500 (generic replacement name)

Kakameganula holmi Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 57, f. 37A-C, 38A-D (mf)

References

Dawidowicz, A. & Wesołowska, W. (2016). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of Kenya collected by Åke Holm. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 66(3): 437-466. doi: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2016.66.3.010 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (2020a). Kakameganula, a new name for the preoccupied Kakamega Dawidowicz & Wesołowska, 2016 (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4722(5): 500. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4722.5.10 -- Show included taxa

Wiśniewski, K. & Wesołowska, W. (2024). Jumping spiders (Salticidae) of Uganda – revised list, new species and distributional data. European Journal of Taxonomy 952: 1-171. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2024.952.2647 -- 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	Comment
2024-12-30	Species distribution update	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value
2024-09-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-09-06	Species distribution update	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value
2020-01-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska, 2020a
2020-01-16	Transferred to other genus after genus homonym replaced	Wesołowska, 2020a		Species transferred from Kakamega to Kakameganula after genus homonym replaced
2016-10-01	New taxonomic reference entry	Dawidowicz & Wesołowska, 2016
2016-10-01	New species inserted	Dawidowicz & Wesołowska, 2016