Afromarengo coriacea
| Back-Flipping Afromarengo Jumping Spider | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Genus: | Afromarengo |
| Species: | A. coriacea
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| Binomial name | |
| Afromarengo coriacea | |
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Afromarengo coriacea is a species of jumping spider in the family Salticidae.[2] It is found in Africa and is commonly known as the back-flipping Afromarengo jumping spider.[3]
Distribution
Afromarengo coriacea is found in Guinea, Ivory Coast, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, and South Africa.[2] In South Africa, the species is known only from KwaZulu-Natal province.[3] Specific localities include Durban, iSimangaliso Wetland Park, Kloof, Ndumo Game Reserve, Tembe Elephant Park, and Umhlanga Rocks.[3]
Description
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Habitat and ecology
This rare species was collected by beating foliage and canopy fogging in some reserves in the Indian Ocean Coastal Belt and Savanna biomes at altitudes ranging from 5 to 496 m.[3] Adults were also collected from beneath the bark of the fever tree (Vachellia xanthophloea), in one instance close to colonies of Crematogaster ants.[3] Specimens were observed to flip backwards when handled.[3]
Conservation
Due to its wide geographical range, the species is listed as Least Concern. There are no known threats to the species and it is protected in Ndumo Game Reserve, Tembe Elephant Park, and Kosi Bay Nature Reserve.[3]
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Taxonomy
Afromarengo coriacea was originally described as Marengo coriacea by Eugène Simon in 1900 from South Africa, with the type locality given only as Natal.[1] The species was transferred to Afromarengo by Benjamin in 2004 and has been redescribed by Dawidowicz and Wesołowska in 2016 and Azarkina and Haddad in 2020.[4][5]
References
- ^ a b Simon, E. (1900). "Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 44: 381–407.
- ^ a b c "Afromarengo coriacea (Simon, 1900)". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-01.
- ^ a b c d e f g 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. 18. doi:10.5281/zenodo.15222559. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
- ^ Benjamin, S.P. (2004). "Taxonomic revision and phylogenetic hypothesis for the jumping spider subfamily Ballinae (Araneae, Salticidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 142 (1): 1–82. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2004.00123.x.
- ^ Azarkina, G.N.; Haddad, C.R. (2020). "Partial revision of the Afrotropical Ballini, with the description of seven new genera (Araneae: Salticidae)". Zootaxa. 4899 (1): 15–92. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4899.1.4. PMID 33756826.