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

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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