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Genus: Langona Simon, 1901 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Langona bethae Wesołowska & Cumming, 2011

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:044144

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Described:

Distribution: Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | Salticidae Database Prószyński (2025) | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium m (229821) - (Wesołowska & Cumming, 2011)
Paratype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium 11m 2f (229826, 229791-229793) - (Wesołowska & Cumming, 2011)
Paratype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa 2m 2f (2010/3834) - (Wesołowska & Cumming, 2011)
Paratype: Museum of Natural History, University of Wroclaw (MNHW), Poland 1m 1f - (Wesołowska & Cumming, 2011)

Taxonomic References

Langona bethae Wesołowska & Cumming, 2011: 81, f. 23-31, 92-93 (Dmf) Original description

Langona bethae Wesołowska, 2011b: 322, f. 36-40 (f)

Langona bethae Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2026: 14, f. 1-7 (mf)

References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Van der Walt, V., Foord, S. H., Lotz, L. N. & Uys, W. (2026). The Salticidae of South Africa. Part 4 (K-Mogrus). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 70 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.20542599 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (2011b). New species and new records of jumping spiders from Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe (Araneae: Salticidae). Genus 22: 307-346. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Cumming, M. S. (2011). New species and records of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) from Sengwa Wildlife Research Area in Zimbabwe. Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 7: 75-104. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2025). Salticidae (Araneae) Genera of the World "a management tool for developing a new system of Salticidae" - a scrollable e-Textbook. Version December 20th, 2025, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2026-06-05	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2026
2026-06-05	Species distribution update	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2026	Old value