Xuriella prima Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000

Wesołowska, Wanda & Haddad, Charles R., 2013, New data on the jumping spiders of South Africa (Araneae: Salticidae), African Invertebrates 54 (1), pp. 177-177 : 237

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2305-2562

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scientific name

Xuriella prima Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000
status

 

Xuriella prima Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 View in CoL Xuriella prima: Wesołowska & Russell-Smith 2000: 115 View in CoL , figs 318–320; Wesołowska & Cumming 2008: 224, figs 196–204.

Wesołowska & Cumming (2008) described both sexes.

Material examined: SOUTH AFRICA: Western Cape: 1♂ Grootvadersbosch Forest Station , 20 km WSW of Heidelberg, 34°00'S 20°47'E, 1600 ft, indigenous forest, 8–10.xi.1985, C. Griswold, J. Doyen & T. Meikle-Griswold ( NMSA, 26474); 1♀ Malmesburg, 33°24'S 18°16'E, on web under bark, 24.x.1987, L. Lotz ( NMBA) GoogleMaps ; 1♀ same locality, on web with imm. Sparassidae , 25.x.1987, L. Lotz ( NMBA) GoogleMaps .

Distribution: Species known from Tanzania and Zimbabwe, recorded for the first time in South Africa ( Fig. 178).

Habitat and biology: Previously known from equatorial and subtropical savanna habitats. Recorded here from Afromontane forest and fynbos habitats in south-western South Africa, where it is apparently a foliage-dwelling spider.

NMSA

KwaZulu-Natal Museum

NMBA

Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Salticidae

Genus

Xuriella

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Salticidae

Genus

Xuriella

Loc

Xuriella prima Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000

Wesołowska, Wanda & Haddad, Charles R. 2013
2013
Loc

Xuriella prima Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000

WESOLOWSKA, W. & CUMMING, M. S. 2008: 224
WESOLOWSKA, W. & RUSSELL-SMITH, A. 2000: 115
2000
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