Vicirionessa albocincta (Thorell, 1899)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036734

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Described:

Distribution: Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Rep., Gabon, Uganda


Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet), Stockholm (NHRS), Sweden m - (Prószyński, 1984c)
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m of Vicirionessa chabanaudi - (Clark, 1974)
Taxonomic References
Viciria albocincta Thorell, 1899: 98 (Dm) Original description
Viciria chabanaudi Fage, 1923b: 300, f. 2 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036738]
Viciria prenanti Berland & Millot, 1941: 387, f. 84 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036768]
Viciria albocincta Clark, 1974: 23, f. 33 (m)
Viciria fuscimana Clark, 1974: 23, f. 37 (f; misidentified per Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025: 902)
Viciria chabanaudi Clark, 1974: 24, f. 40 (m)
Viciria fuscimana Wanless & Clark, 1975: 281, f. 15-16 (f; misidentified per Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025: 902)
"Viciria" albocincta Prószyński, 1984c: 433, f. 44-45 (m, should be transferred to other genus)
Brancus fuscimanus Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011: 566, f. 43-44, 220 (f; misidentified per Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025: 902)
Brancus lacrimosus Wesołowska & Edwards, 2012: 738, f. 25-27, 118 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:045715]
Hyllus albocinctus Prószyński, 2017b: 36, f. 16F (m, T from Viciria)
Brancus fuscimanus Prószyński, 2017b: 36, f. 16K-L (f; misidentified sensu Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025: 902)
Vicirionessa albocincta Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 130 (T from Hyllus)
Vicirionessa chabanaudi Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 130 (T from Viciria)
Vicirionessa prenanti Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 130 (T from Viciria)
Vicirionessa fuscimana Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 133, f. 79A-F (mf; misidentified per Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025: 902)
Vicirionessa albocincta Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025: 902, f. 89A-E (mf, S of Vicirionessa lacrimosa [rejecting Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 133] and V. prenanti [rejecting Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 156], both removed from S of V. fuscimana)
Vicirionessa albocincta Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026: 58, f. 52A-D, 55B (m, S of Vicirionessa chabanaudi)
References

Berland, L. & Millot, J. (1941). Les araignées de l'Afrique Occidentale Française I.-Les salticides. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (N.S.) 12: 297-423. -- Show included taxa

Clark, D. J. (1974). Notes on Simon's types of African Salticidae. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 3(1): 11-27. -- Show included taxa

Fage, L. (1923b). Arachnides rapportes par M. Chabanaud de la Guinee française et du Liberia (1919-1920). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris 29(4): 298-302. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1984c). Remarks on Viciria and Telamonia (Araneae, Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 37: 417-436. -- 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

Thorell, T. (1899). Araneae Camerunenses (Africae occidentalis) quas anno 1891 collegerunt Cel. Dr Y. Sjöstedt aliique. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 25(IV, 1): 1-105. -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. & Clark, D. J. (1975). On a collection of spiders of the family Salticidae from the Ivory Coast (Araneae). Revue Zoologique Africaine 89: 273-296. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2011). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from southern Nigeria. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 61(3): 553-619. doi: 10.3161/000345411X603409 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Edwards, G. B. (2012). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Calabar area (SE Nigeria). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 62(4): 733-772. doi: 10.3161/000345412X659786 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2022). Jumping spiders from Ivory Coast collected by J.-C. Ledoux (Araneae, Salticidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 841: 1-143. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2022.841.1943 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Henrard, A. (2025). New data on the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from the Nimba Mountains, Guinea. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 75(3): 811-912. doi: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2025.75.3.010 -- 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.

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 Comment
2026-01-12 New taxonomic reference entry Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026
2026-01-12 Species distribution update Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026 Old value
2025-10-02 New taxonomic reference entry Prószyński, 2017b
2025-10-02 New taxonomic reference entry Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022
2025-10-02 New taxonomic reference entry Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011
2025-10-02 New taxonomic reference entry Clark, 1974
2025-10-01 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon Old value
2025-10-01 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon Old value
2025-10-01 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon Old value
2025-10-01 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon Old value
2025-10-01 Species synonymy Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025 Vicirionessa prenanti synonymized with Vicirionessa albocincta
2025-10-01 Species synonymy Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025 Vicirionessa lacrimosa synonymized with Vicirionessa albocincta
2025-10-01 New taxonomic reference entry Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025
2025-10-01 Species distribution update Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025 Old value
2025-06-29 Species distribution update Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025 Old value
2022-10-17 New taxonomic reference entry Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022
2022-10-17 Species transferred to new genus Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 Species transferred from Hyllus to Vicirionessa
2017-09-12 New taxonomic reference entry Prószyński, 2017b
2017-09-12 Species transferred to new genus Prószyński, 2017b Species transferred from Viciria to Hyllus

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