Belippo calcarata (Roewer, 1942)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032496

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Described:

Distribution: Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Rep., DR Congo, Kenya, Angola, Mozambique, South Africa


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Taxonomic References
Myrmarachne calcarata Roewer, 1942b: 253, pl. 19, f. 9 (Dm) Original description
Belippo calcarata Wanless, 1978a: 11, f. 6A-L (m, Df, T from Myrmarachne)
Belippo calcarata Wesołowska & Wiśniewski, 2015: 549, f. 2-11 (mf)
Belippo calcarata Wesołowska & Haddad, 2018: 883, f. 27, 33 (f)
Belippo calcarata Pett, Iyomi & Mbende, 2023: 471, f. 19-23 (f)
Belippo calcarata Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a: 32, f. 1-8 (mf)
Belippo calcarata Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026: 9, f. 5A-F (f)
References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Van der Walt, V., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2025a). The Salticidae of South Africa. Part 1 (A-Den). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 63 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15222559 -- Show included taxa

Pett, B. L., Iyomi, D. M. M. & Mbende, M. (2023). Myrmarachnini (Araneae: Salticidae: Salticinae: Astioida) of Salonga National Park, D.R. Congo, with description of a new species and two new species records. Arthropoda Selecta 32(4): 466-473. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.32.4.11 -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1942b). Opiliones, Pedipalpi und Araneae von Fernando Poo. 21. Beitrag zu den wissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen der Westafrika Expedition Eidmann 1939/40. Veröffentlichungen aus dem Deutschen Kolonial- und Übersee-Museum Bremen 3: 244-258. -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. (1978a). A revision of the spider genera Belippo and Myrmarachne (Araneae: Salticidae) in the Ethiopian region. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 33(1): 1-139. doi: 10.5962/p.28732 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Wiśniewski, K. (2015). New data on Belippo and Myrmarachne of Kenya (Araneae: Salticidae: Myrmarachninae). Zootaxa 3980(4): 547-561. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3980.4.5 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Haddad, C. R. (2018). Further additions to the jumping spider fauna of South Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 68(4): 879-908. doi: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2018.68.4.011 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W., Russell-Smith, A. & Danflous, S. (2026). The jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from the southwestern region of Central African Republic. Zootaxa 5743(1): 1-74. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5743.1.1 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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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
2026-01-11 New taxonomic reference entry Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026
2026-01-11 Species distribution update Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026 Old value
2025-10-01 Species distribution update Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025 Old value
2025-04-21 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025a
2024-12-29 Species distribution update Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 Old value
2023-12-25 New taxonomic reference entry Pett, Iyomi & Mbende, 2023
2023-12-25 Species distribution update Pett, Iyomi & Mbende, 2023 Old value
2018-12-11 New taxonomic reference entry Wesołowska & Haddad, 2018
2018-12-11 Species distribution update Wesołowska & Haddad, 2018 Old value
2015-07-06 New taxonomic reference entry Wesołowska & Wiśniewski, 2015
2015-07-06 Species distribution update Wesołowska & Wiśniewski, 2015 Old value

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