Afraflacilla zuluensis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Arachnida
- Order
- Araneae
- Family
- Salticidae
- Genus
- Afraflacilla
- Species
- Afraflacilla zuluensis
- Scientific Name
- Afraflacilla zuluensis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Afraflacilla zuluensis
Afraflacilla zuluensis is a species of jumping spider in the genus Afraflacilla that lives in South Africa. The spider was first described in 2013 by Charles Haddad and Wanda Wesołowska. Originally allocated to the genus Pseudicius, it was moved to its current name by Jerzy Prószyński in 2016. It is hard to distinguish from others in the genus, particularly the related Afraflacilla karinae. The female is also hard to distinguish from Pseudicius gracilis. The spider is small, with a cephalothorax that is between 1.8 and 1.9 long and an abdomen between 2.0 and 2.2 mm long. It has a dark brown carapace with a black eye field. The female has a pattern of white lines on its abdomen, which is otherwise brown on top and yellowish underneath. The male makes sounds by rubbing short hairs on its front legs with its carapace. The male's front leg is also larger than the other legs, which are also generally more yellowish. It lives in the canopy of trees of the Vachellia genus in the mountains of Zululand, KwaZulu-Natal, after which it is named.
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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