Global InformationAfraflacilla venustula information
| Afraflacilla venustula | |
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| The related Afraflacilla grayorum | |
Conservation status
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 Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Afraflacilla |
| Species: | A. venustula
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| Binomial name | |
| Afraflacilla venustula (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009)
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| Synonyms[2] | |
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Afraflacilla venustula, the Ndumo Afraflacilla Jumping Spider, is a species of jumping spider in the genus Afraflacilla that lives in South Africa. The spider was first described in 2009 by Wanda Wesołowska and Charles Haddad. Originally allocated to the genus Pseudicius, it was moved to its current name by Jerzy Prószyński in 2016. The spider is small, with a carapace that is between 1.7 and 2.0 mm (0.067 and 0.079 in) long and an abdomen between 1.8 and 2.5 mm (0.071 and 0.098 in) long. The male is larger than the female. The carapace is light brown, although some males are darker, with a black eye field. The male abdomen is black with a pattern of four pairs of white spots, like Pseudicius sengwaensis. The female abdomen is yellowish with four brown spots. The legs are generally yellow, apart from the front pair on the male, which are brown, longer and stouter. The male also has a distinctive bulbous shape to its palpal bulb and a longer embolus than related species.
- ^ Dippenaar-Schoeman et al. 2023, p. e.T176430612A189450212.
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