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Genus: Cembalea Wesołowska, 1993 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Cembalea plumosa (Lessert, 1925)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032639

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Described:

Distribution: Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa

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

Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 4m 5f (ARTO 27905) - (Lessert, 1925a)
Syntype: Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet), Stockholm (NHRS), Sweden 1m 1f - (Prószyński, 1984a)

Taxonomic References

Neaetha heteropogon Simon, 1910b: 217 (f; misidentified per Logunov, 1996d: 530,)

Tularosa plumosa Lessert, 1925a: 519, f. 105-109 (Dmf) Original description

Tularosa plumosa Prószyński, 1984a: 141 (mf)

Cembalea plumosa Wesołowska, 1993b: 37, f. 11-20 (mf, T from Tularosa)

Cembalea plumosa Logunov, 1996d: 530, f. 34-39 (f)

Cembalea plumosa Prószyński, 2017b: 33, f. 14E (m)

Cembalea plumosa Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a: 42, f. 1-6 (mf)

References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Van der Walt, V., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2025a). The Salticidae of South Africa. Part 1 (A-Den). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 63 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15222559 -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1925a). Araignées du Kilimandjaro et du Merou (suite). 5. Salticidae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 31: 429-528. -- Show included taxa

Logunov, D. V. (1996d). Taxonomic remarks on the genera Neaetha Simon, 1884 and Cembalea Wesolowska, 1993 (Araneae: Salticidae). Genus 7(3): 515-532. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1984a). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae). Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej w Siedlcach 2: 1-177. -- Show included taxa

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

Simon, E. (1910b). Arachnoidea: Araneae (II.). In: Schultze, L. (ed.) Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika. Vierter Band. Systematik und Tiergeographie. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 16: 175-218. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (1993b). On the genus Tularosa Peckham et Peckham, 1903 (Araneae, Salticidae). Genus 4(1): 33-40. -- 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
2025-04-21	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a
2024-12-29	Species distribution update	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value
2017-09-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b
2016-10-01	Species distribution update	Dawidowicz & Wesołowska, 2016	Old value