Afraflacilla roberti: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Arachnida
- Order
- Araneae
- Family
- Salticidae
- Genus
- Afraflacilla
- Species
- Afraflacilla roberti
- Scientific Name
- Afraflacilla roberti
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Afraflacilla roberti
Afraflacilla roberti is a species of jumping spider in the genus Afraflacilla that is found in Kenya. The spider was first defined in 2011 by Wanda Wesołowska. She originally placed the species in the genus Pseudicius, but Jerzy Prószyński moved it in 2017 to Afraflacilla on the basis of shape of its copulatory organs. The species is named after Robert Jackson, the collector who found the first example. The spider is small, with a cephalothorax between 1.7 and 1.6 mm (0.067 and 0.063 in) long and an abdomen between 1.7 and 2.4 mm (0.067 and 0.094 in) long. The female is larger than the male. The carapace is a dark brown elongated oval with a black eye field covered in white hairs. The abdomen is blackish-brown and is marked by two pairs of white patches and a small number of faint chevrons at the very rear. Some female examples have a generally featureless dark abdomen and others have additional small rounded patches at the edge. Some have light stripes to the front of the abdomen. The spider has yellow legs, apart from the front pair, which are brown, longer and stouter. It stridulates using its legs and carapace. Afraflacilla roberti can be differentiated from other species in the genus by its copulatory organs. The male has a long thin tibial apophysis. The female has narrow coiled insemination ducts.
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Sibling Taxa
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- 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
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