Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Rafalus  Prószyński, 1999   3 species

Rafalus insignipalpis (Simon, 1882)

Description
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: occurrence in Libya doubtful (Prószyński 2003)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Yemen (mainland, Socotra)
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Distribution List
Libya   (Caporiacco, 1928; Elkrew et al., 2024) |||
References

Caporiacco L di (1928) Resultati zoologici della Missione inviata dalla R. Società Geografica Italiana per l'esplorazione dell'oasi di Giarabub (1926-1927). Aracnidi di Giarabub e di Porto Bardia. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 53: 77-107 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

Prószyński J (1999) Description of Rafalus gen. n. (Aranei: Salticidae), with special reference to the Near East fauna. Arthropoda Selecta 8: 89-101 pdf

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

Wesołowska W, Harten A van (2002) Contribution to the knowledge of the Salticidae (Araneae) of the Socotra Archipelago, Yemen. Fauna of Arabia 19: 369-389 pdf

Wesołowska W, Harten A van (2007) Additions to the knowledge of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of Yemen. Fauna of Arabia 23: 189-269 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

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