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Genus: Mexcala G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1902 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Mexcala elegans G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034663

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Described:

Distribution: Ivory Coast, Malawi, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa

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

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Taxonomic References

Mexcala elegans Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 248, pl. 29, f. 2 (Dm) Original description

Cosmophasis natalensis Lawrence, 1942: 184, f. 30 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032961]

Mexcala natalensis Wesołowska & Cumming, 2008: 197, f. 92-97 (mf, T from Cosmophasis)

Mexcala elegans Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009: 56, f. 101-104, 247 (mf)

Mexcala elegans Wesołowska, 2009a: 158, f. 2, 30-46 (mf, S of Cosmophasis natalensis)

References

Lawrence, R. F. (1942). A contribution to the araneid fauna of Natal and Zululand. Annals of the Natal Museum 10: 141-190. -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1903). New species of the family Attidae from South Africa, with notes on the distribution of the genera found in the Ethiopian region. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 14(1): 173-278, pl. 19-29. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Cumming, M. S. (2008). Taxonomy and natural history of a species rich assemblage of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae); a long-term study of a suburban site in Zimbabwe. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 58: 167-230. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (2009a). A revision of the spider genus Mexcala Peckham et Peckham, 1902 (Araneae: Salticidae). Genus 20: 149-186. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Haddad, C. R. (2009). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Ndumo Game Reserve, Maputaland, South Africa. African Invertebrates 50(1): 13-103. doi: 10.5733/afin.050.0102 -- 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
2024-12-30	Species distribution update	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value