Afraflacilla

Afraflacilla
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Section: Dionycha
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Aelurillinae
Genus: Afraflacilla
Berland & Millot, 1941
Type species
Afraflacilla bamakoi
Berland & Millot, 1941
Species

see text

Diversity
17 species

Afraflacilla is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders). Most species are distributed in Eastern to Northern Africa (including the Middle East) and Australia, with one species (A. epiblemoides) found in Europe.[1]

This genus was for a time included in the genus Pseudicius, and the boundaries between both genera are disputed.

Afraflacilla was first described from Australia in 1993, where they occupy tree trunks in savanna woodland and in open sclerophyll phorests.[2]

Relationships

Afraflacilla, Pseudicius, Festucula and Marchena are close relatives and form a monophyletic group.[2]

Name

The name is combined from Africa, where most earlier described species were found, and Flacilla Simon, 1901, an obsolete salticid genus now called Flacillula Strand, 1932. This genus name is in turn derived from Aelia Flaccilla, wife of Roman Emperor Theodosius I.

Species

Notes

  1. Platnick 2009
  2. 1 2 Zabka & Gray 2002

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