Genus Afraflacilla Berland & Millot, 1941

Museums

Regional Maps

• Afraflacilla Berland, L. & Millot, J. 1941. Les araignées de l'Afrique Occidentale Française. I. Les Salticides. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 12: 297-424 [328].

  Type species:

   Afraflacilla bamakoi Berland & Millot, 1941 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL) ; SA, WA: Gawler (GAW)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, predator.

General References

Berry, J., Beatty, J. & Proszynski, J. 1998. Salticidae of the Pacific Islands. 3. Distribution of seven genera with descriptions of nineteen new species and two new genera. Journal of Arachnology 26: 149-189 (consider Australian species to represent Pseudicius)

Maddison, W.P. 2015. A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Journal of Arachnology 43: 231-292

Metzner, H. 1999. Die Springspinnen (Areneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 3-279 [242] (status)

Proszynski, J. 2011. Monograph of Salticidae (Araneae) of the World: 1995-2011. May 26th, 2015. http://www.peckhamia.com/salticidae/ (rejects the transfer of all species from Pseudicius. States this is a large complex genus containing unknown generic components)

Proszynski, J. 2016. Delimitation and description of 19 new genera, a subgenus and a species of Salticidae (Araneae) of the world. Ecologia Montenegrina 7: 4-32 (whilst leaving most Australian Afraflicilla species in Pseudiius he established a new genus, Psenuc, and included the Australian species .A. milledgei in it. Neither proposal is accepted here.)

Richardson, B.J., Whyte, R. & Zabka, M. 2019. A key to the genera of Australian jumping spiders (Aranaea: Salticidae). https://apps.lucidcentral.org/salticidae/

Richardson, B.J., Żabka, M., Gray, M.R. & Milledge, G. 2006. Distributional patterns of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in Australia. Journal of Biogeography 33: 707-719 (Gives BIOCLIM predicted distribution of the genus)

Whyte, R. & Anderson, G. 2017. A field guide to the spiders of Australia. Clayton : CSIRO Publishing pp.

Żabka, M. 1993. Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Oriental, Australian and Pacific regions. IX. Genera Afraflacilla Berland & Millot 1941 and Evarcha Simon 1902. Invertebrate Taxonomy 7: 279-295 (reinstated from synonymy with Pseudicius)

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