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Genus: Thiratoscirtus Simon, 1886 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Thiratoscirtus ramadanii (Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034048

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Described:

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Distribution: Kenya, Tanzania

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

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Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium m (207954) - (Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000)
Allotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium f (207955) - (Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000)

Taxonomic References

Hyllus ramadanii Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000: 43, f. 89-96 (Dmf) Original description

Thiratoscirtus ramadanii Wesołowska & Wiśniewski, 2026: 115, f. 7A-D, 8A-E (mf, T from Hyllus)

References

Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2000). Jumping spiders from Mkomazi Game Reserve in Tanzania (Araneae Salticidae). Tropical Zoology 13(1): 11-127. doi: 10.1080/03946975.2000.10531126 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Wiśniewski, K. (2026). Notes on jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from the Usambara Mountains of Tanzania. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 133(8): 109-120. doi: 10.35929/RSZ.164 ZooBank: 2FB22A9B-4801-4302-BDB3-A8947AC058A0 -- 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
2026-09-18	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska & Wiśniewski, 2026
2026-09-18	Species transferred to new genus	Wesołowska & Wiśniewski, 2026		Species transferred from Hyllus C. L. Koch, 1846 to Thiratoscirtus Simon, 1886
2016-10-01	Species distribution update	Dawidowicz & Wesołowska, 2016	Old value