''Bacelarella'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of African
jumping spiders
Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. , this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiderscomprising 13% of spider species. Jumping s ...
that was first described by
Lucien Berland
Lucien Berland (14 May 1888 in Ay, Marne – 18 August 1962 in Versailles)Jean-Jacques Amigo, « Berland (Lucien) », in Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, vol. 3 Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, Publications d ...
& J. Millot in 1941.
This genus was named in honour of the Portuguese arachnologist
Amélia Bacelar.
Species
it contains eight species, found only in Africa:
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Bacelarella conjugans''
Szüts & Jocqué, 2001 – Ivory Coast
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Bacelarella dracula''
Szüts & Jocqué, 2001 – Ivory Coast, Nigeria
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Bacelarella fradei''
Berland & Millot, 1941 (
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) – West Africa, Congo, Malawi
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Bacelarella gibbosa''
Wesolowska & Edwards, 2012 – Nigeria
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Bacelarella iactans''
Szüts & Jocqué, 2001 – Ivory Coast
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Bacelarella machadoi''
Wesołowska & Wiśniewski, 2023 – Angola
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Bacelarella pavida''
Szüts & Jocqué, 2001 – Ivory Coast
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Bacelarella tanohi''
Szüts & Jocqué, 2001 – Ivory Coast
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Bacelarella tentativa''
Szüts & Jocqué, 2001 – Ivory Coast
References
Further reading
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Salticidae genera
Salticidae
Spiders of Africa
Taxa named by Lucien Berland
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