Bacelarella

Bacelarella
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Bacelarella Berland & Millot, 1941[1]
Type species
B. fradei Berland & Millot, 1941
Species
8, see text

Bacelarella is a genus of African jumping spiders that was first described by Lucien Berland & J. Millot in 1941.[2] This genus was named in honour of the Portuguese arachnologist Amélia Bacelar.[3]

Species

As of April 2024^[update] it contains eight species, found only in Africa:[1]

• Bacelarella conjugans Szüts & Jocqué, 2001 – Ivory Coast
• Bacelarella dracula Szüts & Jocqué, 2001 – Ivory Coast, Nigeria
• Bacelarella fradei Berland & Millot, 1941 (type) – West Africa, Congo, Malawi
• Bacelarella gibbosa Wesolowska & Edwards, 2012 – Nigeria
• Bacelarella iactans Szüts & Jocqué, 2001 – Ivory Coast
• Bacelarella machadoi Wesołowska & Wiśniewski, 2023 – Angola
• Bacelarella pavida Szüts & Jocqué, 2001 – Ivory Coast
• Bacelarella tanohi Szüts & Jocqué, 2001 – Ivory Coast
• Bacelarella tentativa Szüts & Jocqué, 2001 – Ivory Coast

References

1. "Gen. Bacelarella Berland & Millot, 1941". World Spider Catalog. 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2024. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
2. Berland, L.; Millot, J. (1941). "Les araignées de l'Afrique Occidentale Française I.-Les salticides". Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. 12: 297–423.
3. Yuri M. Marusik; Danniella Sherwood (27 June 2022). "Matronymic genera in spiders (Araneae) named for arachnologists". Arachnology. 19 (sp1). doi:10.13156/ARAC.2022.19.SP1.150. ISSN 2050-9928. Wikidata Q113667188.

Further reading

• Szűts, T.; Jocqué, R. (2001). "New species in the genus Bacelarella (Araneae: Salticidae) from Côte d'Ivoire". Annals Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale (Sciences Zoologiques). 285: 77–100.