Langona

Langona
L. hirsuta
L. warchalowskii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Tribe:	Aelurillini
Genus:	Langona Simon, 1901
Type species
Attus redii Audouin, 1826
Species
See text

Langona is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders). Langona species are similar to those of the genus Aelurillus . ^[1] In 2015, it was listed in the subtribe Aelurillina. The subtribe is allocated to the tribe Aelurillini in the clade Saltafresia. ^[2] In 2017, it was grouped with nine other genera of jumping spiders under the name Aelurillines. ^[3]

Species

• 
  L. davidi
• 
  L. hirsuta
• 
  L. tartarica
• 
  L. warchalowskii

As of October 2025 ^[update] , this genus includes 45 species: ^[4]

• Langona albolinea Caleb & Mathai, 2015 – India
• Langona alfensis Hęciak & Prószyński, 1983 – Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia
• Langona aperta (Denis, 1958) – Iran, Afghanistan, India
• Langona atrata Peng & Li, 2008 – China
• Langona avara G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903 – Zimbabwe
• Langona bethae Wesołowska & Cumming, 2011 – Botswana, Zimbabwe
• Langona bhutanica Prószyński, 1978 – Bhutan, China
• Langona biangula Peng, Li & Yang, 2004 – China
• Langona bisecta Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
• Langona bitumorata Próchniewicz & Hęciak, 1994 – Tanzania
• Langona bristowei Berland & Millot, 1941 – Senegal, Guinea, Nigeria, Uganda
• Langona davidi (Caleb, Mungkung & Mathai, 2015) – India
• Langona fusca Wesołowska, 2011 – Zimbabwe
• Langona goaensis Prószyński, 1992 – India
• Langona hirsuta Haddad & Wesołowska, 2011 – South Africa
• Langona hongkong Song, Xie, Zhu & Wu, 1997 – China
• Langona improcera Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 – Tanzania
• Langona kurracheensis Hęciak & Prószyński, 1983 – Pakistan
• Langona lotzi Haddad & Wesołowska, 2011 – South Africa, Lesotho
• Langona maculata Peng, Li & Yang, 2004 – China
• Langona magna Caporiacco, 1947 – Ethiopia
• Langona maindroni (Simon, 1886) – Senegal
• Langona mallezi (Denis, 1947) – Egypt
• Langona manicata Simon, 1901 – South Africa
• Langona mediocris Wesołowska, 2000 – Zimbabwe
• Langona minima Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
• Langona oreni Prószyński, 2000 – Israel
• Langona pallida Prószyński, 1993 – Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan
• Langona pallidula Logunov & Rakov, 1998 – Iran, Turkmenistan
• Langona pattayensis Żabka & Patoleta, 2020 – Thailand
• Langona pecten Próchniewicz & Hęciak, 1994 – Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe
• Langona pilosa Wesołowska, 2006 – Namibia
• Langona redii (Audouin, 1826) – Egypt, Israel, Syria, Yemen, Iran (type species)
• Langona sabulosa Wesołowska, 2011 – Namibia
• Langona senegalensis Berland & Millot, 1941 – Senegal
• Langona simoni Hęciak & Prószyński, 1983 – Pakistan
• Langona spiralis Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Mozambique
• Langona tartarica (Charitonov, 1946) – Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, Yemen?
• Langona tigrina (Simon, 1886) – India
• Langona tortuosa Wesołowska, 2011 – Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa
• Langona trifoveolata (Lessert, 1927) – Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, DR Congo, Mozambique
• Langona ukualuthensis Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia
• Langona vitiosa Wesołowska, 2006 – Namibia
• Langona warchalowskii Wesołowska, 2007 – South Africa
• Langona zimbabwensis Wesołowska & Cumming, 2011 – Zimbabwe

Footnotes

1. Murphy & Murphy 2000: 275
2. Maddison 2015, p. 279.
3. Prószyński 2017, p. 95.
4. "Gen. Langona Simon, 1901". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2025-10-17.

References

• Maddison, Wayne P. (2015). "A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)". The Journal of Arachnology. 43 (3): 231–292. doi:10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292. S2CID   85680279.
• Murphy, Frances; Murphy, John (2000). An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Nature Society.
• Prószyński, Jerzy (2017). "Pragmatic classification of the World's Salticidae (Araneae)". Ecologica Montenegrina. 12: 1–133. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.12.1 .

External links

• Citizen science observations for Langona at iNaturalist