Afraflacilla arabica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Afraflacilla
Species:
A. arabica
Binomial name
Afraflacilla arabica
Wesołowska & van Harten, 1994

Afraflacilla arabica is a jumping spider species in the genus Afraflacilla that lives in Afghanistan. Egypt, Iran, and Yemen.[1]

The species was originally discovered by Wanda Wesołowska and Tony van Harten in Yemen and described in 1994 and named Afraflacilla arabica.[2] It was merged with Pseudicius braunsi. Discovered by Wesołowska in 1996, and moved to the genus Pseudicius with the species name arabicus by Dmitri Logunov and Mehrdad Zamanpoore in 2005.[3] In 2017 it was moved back to Afraflacilla.[4]

References

  1. World Spider Catalog (2022). "Afraflacilla arabica Wesolowska & van Harten, 1994". World Spider Catalog. 23.0. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
  2. Wesołowska, W.; van Harten, A. (1994). "The jumping spiders (Salticidae, Araneae) of Yemen'". Sana'a: Yemeni-German Plant Protection Project. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. Logunov, D. V.; Zamanpoore, M. (2005). "Salticidae (Araneae) of Afghanistan: an annotated check-list, with descriptions of four new species and three new synonymies". Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society. 13: 217–232.
  4. Prószyński, J. (2017). "Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae)". Ecologica Montenegrina. 12: 1–133. doi:10.37828/em.2017.12.1.


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