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Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Afraflacilla  Berland & Millot, 1941   8 species

Afraflacilla tamaricis (Simon, 1885)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035832

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Description
Male

Prosoma brown, eye field blackish, prosoma length: 1.70 mm. Leg I robust, tibia I swollen, legs II-IV yellow. Opisthsoma with blackish median streak with 4 transverse branches.

Female

Prosoma brown, covered with white hairs, eye field with central spot and black edges, sides yellow, prosoma length: 1.82 mm. Opisthosoma: dorsum with a pattern of yellow stripes and a black spot in posterior half.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Schenkel (1938) published Pseudicius badius from Spain, Machado corrected it to P. tamaricis. Cardoso & Morano (2010) listed the latter name for Spain and Portugal, but is evaluated as doubtful (Carrillo in litt.). See also salticidae.org.
Global distribution (WSC 2026): North Africa, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Prószyński 2003)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Prószyński 2003)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Prószyński 2003)

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female Epigyne, variation, ventral view
(Prószyński 2003)

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female Epigyne, variation, ventral view
(Prószyński 2003)

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female Vulva
(Prószyński 2003)

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female Vulva, variation
(Prószyński 2003)

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female Vulva, variation
(Prószyński 2003)

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female Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Prószyński 2003)

Distribution List
Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Egypt   (El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| Libya   (Elkrew et al., 2024) ||| Morocco   (Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Tunisia   (Logunov, 2015; Kmira et al., 2025) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 pdf

Cardoso P, Morano E (2010) The Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 2495: 1-52 pdf

El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183 pdf

Elkrew H, Hamza A, Ghana S, Shaibi T, Swehli A I, Elmareme H, Ahmad A (2024) Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Libya. Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences 22: 19346-19369 pdf

Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95 pdf

Logunov D V (2015) Taxonomic-faunistic notes on the jumping spiders of the Mediterranean (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 24: 33-85 pdf

Machado A de B (1941) Araignées nouvelles pour la faune portugaise (II). Memorias e Estudos do Museu Zoologico da Universidade de Coimbra 117: 1-60 pdf

Prószyński J (2003) Salticidae (Araneae) of the Levant. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 53: 1-180 pdf

Schenkel E (1938b) Spinnentiere von der Iberischen Halbinsel, gesammelt von Prof. Dr. O. Lundblad, 1935. Arkiv för Zoologi 30(A24): 1-29 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
04-06-2025 Distribution update Detail
05-05-2023 Distribution update Detail
27-01-2017 Datasheet update Detail
27-01-2017 Distribution update Detail
27-08-2013 Datasheet update Detail
27-08-2013 Image insert