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Genus: Foordus Azarkina, 2024 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Foordus stefani Azarkina, 2024

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062908

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Described:

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Distribution: South Africa

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

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Holotype: Ditsong National Museum of Natural History (formerly Transvaal Museum) (TMSA), Pretoria, South Africa m (25041) - (Azarkina, 2024)
Paratype: Ditsong National Museum of Natural History (formerly Transvaal Museum) (TMSA), Pretoria, South Africa 4m 1f (22209, 22218, 22228, 22240) - (Azarkina, 2024)
Paratype: Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals (ISEA), Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia 1m (001.9106) - (Azarkina, 2024)
Paratype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa 1m (2024/18) - (Azarkina, 2024)
Paratype: Manchester Museum of the University of Manchester (MMUE/MMUM), Manchester, United Kingdom 1m (G7709.1) - (Azarkina, 2024)
Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany 1m - (Azarkina, 2024)
Paratype: Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg (ZISP), Russia 1m (ARA 822) - (Azarkina, 2024)

Taxonomic References

Foordus stefani Azarkina, 2024: 80, f. 1-17 (Dmf) Original description

Foordus stefani Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025b: 44, p. 43: f. 1-2, p. 44: f. 1-6 (mf)

References

Azarkina, G. N. (2024). Foordus gen. nov., a new genus of euophryine jumping spider from South Africa (Salticidae, Araneae). African Invertebrates 65(2): 75-83. doi: 10.3897/AfrInvertebr.65.137760 -- 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.

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference
2025-04-24	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025b
2024-11-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Azarkina, 2024
2024-11-09	New species inserted	Azarkina, 2024