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]
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Scientific classification 
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| 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
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Species
editAs 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
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Bacelarella Berland & Millot, 1941". World Spider Catalog. 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2024. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
edit- 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.
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