Afraflacilla eximia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Arachnida
- Order
- Araneae
- Family
- Salticidae
- Genus
- Afraflacilla
- Species
- Afraflacilla eximia
- Scientific Name
- Afraflacilla eximia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Afraflacilla eximia
Afraflacilla eximia is a species of jumping spider in the genus Afraflacilla that lives in Zimbabwe. The spider was first described in 2000 by Wanda Wesołowska and Anthony Russell-Smith. Originally allocated to the genus Pseudicius, it was moved to its current name by Jerzy Prószyński in 2016. It has a specific name that is derived from the Latin word that means "unusual". The spider is small, with a brown carapace that is typically 2.1 mm (0.08 in) long and a russet-brown abdomen that is typically 2.8 mm (0.11 in) long. It has a black eye field and brown legs. It has distinctive copulatory organs that enables it to be distinguished from other species in the genus, particularly the related Afraflacilla braunsi and Afraflacilla roberti. The male has a particularly long tibial apophysis, or projection on its palpal tibia, and longer embolus. The female has not been described.
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Sibling Taxa
- Afraflacilla altera
- Afraflacilla antineae
- Afraflacilla arabica
- Afraflacilla asorotica
- Afraflacilla ballarini
- Afraflacilla bamakoi
- Afraflacilla berlandi
- Afraflacilla bipunctata
- Afraflacilla braunsi
- Afraflacilla datuntata
- Afraflacilla elegans
- Afraflacilla epiblemoides
- Afraflacilla eximia
- Afraflacilla fayda
- Afraflacilla flavipes
- Afraflacilla grayorum
- Afraflacilla gunbar
- Afraflacilla histrionica
- Afraflacilla huntorum
- Afraflacilla imitator
- Afraflacilla javanica
- Afraflacilla karinae
- Afraflacilla kraussi
- Afraflacilla kurichiadensis
- Afraflacilla miajlarensis
- Afraflacilla mikhailovi
- Afraflacilla mushrif
- Afraflacilla philippinensis
- Afraflacilla refulgens
- Afraflacilla reiskindi
- Afraflacilla risbeci
- Afraflacilla roberti
- Afraflacilla scenica
- Afraflacilla similis
- Afraflacilla spiniger
- Afraflacilla stridulator
- Afraflacilla tamaricis
- Afraflacilla tarajalis
- Afraflacilla venustula
- Afraflacilla vestjensi
- Afraflacilla wadis
- Afraflacilla yeni
- Afraflacilla zuluensis