Afraflacilla bipunctata
| Willowmore Afraflacilla Jumping Spider | |
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| female | |
| female | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Genus: | Afraflacilla |
| Species: | A. bipunctata
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| Binomial name | |
| Afraflacilla bipunctata (Peckham & Peckham, 1903)[1]
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| Synonyms[2] | |
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Afraflacilla bipunctata is a species of jumping spider in the family Salticidae.[2] It is endemic to South Africa and is commonly known as the Willowmore Afraflacilla jumping spider.[3]
Distribution
Afraflacilla bipunctata is found only in South Africa, where it has been recorded from Eastern Cape (Willowmore) and Western Cape (Aardvark Nature Reserve).[3]
Description
Habitat and ecology
This is a free-living plant-dwelling species sampled from the Fynbos and Nama Karoo biomes at an altitude of approximately 855 m.[3]
Conservation
The species is listed as Data Deficient for taxonomic reasons. Threats to the species are unknown but additional sampling is needed to collect the male and determine the species' range.[3]
Taxonomy
Afraflacilla bipunctata was originally described as Pseudicius bipunctatus by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1903 from Willowmore in the Eastern Cape.[1] The species is known only from the female and was transferred to Afraflacilla by Prószyński in 2017.[4]
References
- ^ a b Peckham, G.W.; Peckham, E.G. (1903). "New species of the family Attidae from South Africa, with notes on the distribution of the genera found in the Ethiopian region". Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. 14 (1): 173–278.
- ^ a b "Afraflacilla bipunctata (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903)". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-01.
- ^ a b c d Dippenaar-Schoeman, A.S.; Van der Walt, V.; Haddad, C.R.; Foord, S.H.; Lotz, L.N. (2025). The Salticidae of South Africa. Part 1 (A-Den). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide. p. 9. doi:10.5281/zenodo.15222559. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
- ^ Prószyński, J. (2017). "Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae)". Ecologica Montenegrina. 12: 1–133. doi:10.37828/em.2017.12.1.