Taxon details
Portia africana (Simon, 1886)
- Rank: Species
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2024-09-06
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035708]
- Distribution: West, Central Africa, Ethiopia, Uganda, Angola, Zambia
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- Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019); m (one pedipalp of NHRS-holotype) (13414-141) of Cocalus africanus
- Holotype: Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet), Stockholm (NHRS), Sweden; m of Cocalus africanus (Wanless, 1978f)
- Lectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France; m (7547) (Wanless, 1978f)
Cocalus africanus Thorell, 1899: 91 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:061973].
Linus africanus Berland & Millot, 1941: 398, f. 91 (m, Df).
Linus africanus Roewer, 1965: 16, f. 15a-d (mf).
Neccocalus africanus Roewer, 1965: 21, f. 21a-l (m, T from Cocalus).
Portia africana Wanless, 1978f: 93, f. 4A-E, 5A-B, F-G, pl. 5b (mf, T from Linus, S of Neccocalus africanus).
Portia africana Prószyński, 1984a: 99 (m).
Portia africana Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008: 45, f. 171-173 (f).
Portia africana Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011: 592, f. 143-145 (m).
Portia africana Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 96, f. 55A-D (mf habitus).
Portia africana Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 108, f. 71A-C (f).
Berland, L. & Millot, J. (1941). Les araignées de l'Afrique Occidentale Française I.-Les salticides. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (N.S.) 12: 297-423. 
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Prószyński, J. (1984a). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae). Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej w Siedlcach 2: 1-177. -- Show included taxa
Roewer, C. F. (1965). Die Lyssomanidae und Salticidae-Pluridentati der Äthiopischen Region (Araneae). Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques 139: 1-86. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1886g). Etudes arachnologiques. 18e Mémoire. XXVI. Matériaux pour servir à la faune des Arachnides du Sénégal. (Suivi d'une appendice intitulé: Descriptions de plusieurs espèces africaines nouvelles). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 5: 345-396. -- Show included taxa
Thorell, T. (1899). Araneae Camerunenses (Africae occidentalis) quas anno 1891 collegerunt Cel. Dr Y. Sjöstedt aliique. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 25(IV, 1): 1-105. -- Show included taxa
Wanless, F. R. (1978f). A revision of the spider genus Portia (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zool.) 34: 83-124. -- Show included taxa
Wesołowska, W. & Tomasiewicz, B. (2008). New species and records of Ethiopian jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 4: 3-59. -- Show included taxa
Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2011). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from southern Nigeria. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 61(3): 553-619. doi:10.3161/000345411X603409 -- Show included taxa
Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2022). Jumping spiders from Ivory Coast collected by J.-C. Ledoux (Araneae, Salticidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 841: 1-143. doi:10.5852/ejt.2022.841.1943 -- Show included taxa
Wiśniewski, K. & Wesołowska, W. (2024). Jumping spiders (Salticidae) of Uganda – revised list, new species and distributional data. European Journal of Taxonomy 952: 1-171. doi:10.5852/ejt.2024.952.2647 -- Show included taxa
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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]
Metzner, H. (2019). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.
Prószyński, J. (2016). Monograph of Salticidae (Araneae) of the World 1995-2015. Part II. Global Species Database of Salticidae (Araneae). Version October 30th, 2016, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.
| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-06 | New taxonomic reference entry | Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 | n/a |
| 2024-09-06 | Species distribution update | Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 | n/a (Old value) |
| 2022-12-04 | New taxonomic reference entry | Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 | n/a |