Langona warchalowskii is a species of jumping spider in the genus Langona that lives in South Africa. It was first described by Wanda Wesołowska in 2007. The spider is large with a carapace between 3 and 4 mm long and a abdomen between 2.4 and 5.8 mm. The male is significantly smaller than the male and has deeper colours. The spider has a black head, dark brown thorax and brown-black abdomen. While all the spiders have two stripes along the carapace, some have one on the abdomen and some and three. The toothless chelicerae is typical of the genus. The male can be distinguished by its copulatory organs, and particularly its short and blunt tibial apophysis. The female also has distinctive copulatory organs, including an epigyne with two small depressions, the rims of which form a shield over the gonopores.
Menemerus transvaalicus is a species of jumping spider in the genus Menemerus that lives in Lesotho and South Africa. The species was first identified in 1999 by Wanda Wesołowska, one of over 500 descriptions she has written during her lifetime. The spider often lives on Eucalyptus trees and the walls of buildings. It is small, with a dark brown hairy carapace that is between 2.1 and 2.5 millimetres long and a fawn to dark brown abdomen that is between 2.0 and 3.6 millimetres in length. The female is larger than the male. It has a yellowish leaf-shaped pattern on its abdomen and orange to brown legs. The male has a conductor on its double embolus, which helps to distinguish the spider from the related Menemerus bifurcus.
Menemerus minshullae is a species of jumping spider in the genus Menemerus that lives in South Africa, Malawi and Zimbabwe. The species was first described in 1999 by Wanda Wesołowska, one of over 500 descriptions she has completed during her lifetime. She originally identified the male as a different species, named Menemerus manicus, but merged the two in 2007. It is small to medium-sized spider with a cephalothorax that is between 1.9 and 2.2 millimetres long and an abdomen between 2.1 and 3.3 millimetres long. The female is larger than the male and lighter, with a dark brown rather than black carapace and lighter brown abdomen. The abdomen has a large, leaf-shaped, pattern. It lives on Vachellia xanthophloea trees, using its flattened shape to hide under flakes of bark. The copulatory organs distinguish the species from others in the genus. The male has a very short embolus with a larger accompanying conductor. The female epigyne has two pockets that have strongly sclerotized edges.
Nigorella hirsuta is a species of jumping spider in the genus Nigorella that lives in South Africa and Zimbabwe. It was first describedin 2009 by Wanda Wesołowska. The spider is medium-sized, with a carapace that is between 3.5 and 4.7 mm long and an abdomen that is between 3.2 and 6.6 mm long. The female is larger than the male. The carapace is generally dark brown and hairy. While the male abdomen is similarly hairy and dark brown, the female abdomen is more grey. The species has been confused with the related Nigorella plebeja. However, it can be generally identified by the strongly sclerotized cups in the female epigyne and the male's longer embolus.
Langona hirsuta is a species of jumping spider in the genus Langona that lives in South Africa. It was first described in 2011 by Charles Haddad and Wanda Wesołowska. The spider is large with a carapace between 2 and 3.7 mm long and a abdomen between 1.9 and 4.4 mm long. The female is significantly larger than the male, particularly in the abdomen, which is also wider and a lighter brown. The male has very hairy pedipalps, after which it is named. It has the toothless chelicerae typical of the genus, and a single appendage, or apophysis, on the palpal tibia. The length of the apophysis helps to distinguish it from other spiders in the genus. It lives in semi-arid climates.
Langona lotzi is a species of jumping spider in the genus Langona that lives in Lesotho and South Africa. It was first described in 2011 by Charles Haddad and Wanda Wesołowska. The spider is large with a carapace that is between 2.1 and 2.8 mm long and an abdomen between 2 and 2.9 mm long. The female is larger than the male. The carapace is dark brown with a black eye field. The male abdomen is black brown with three white stripes, while the female has a plain greyish-brown abdomen. As the colouring is similar to other spiders in the genus, the species is best distinguished by its copulatory organs. The male has an unusually small embolus that has its base hidden in the palpal bulb cymbium. The female has a unique epigyne with a shallow depression lined with sclerotised wings covering the gonopores and a simple internal morphology.
Pseudicius maculatus is a species of jumping spider in the genus Pseudicius that lives in Lesotho and South Africa. The spider was first defined in 2011 by Charles Haddad and Wanda Wesołowska. The spider is small, with a carapace and abdomen each that measure between 2.5 and 2.7 mm long. The carapace is chocolate-brown and covered in white hairs. The abdomen has a pattern of white patches which are more distinctive on the female. These give the species its name. It also has a characteristic longer and stouter foreleg. The species is similar to the related Pseudicius africanus, apart from the pattern on the abdomen. It also differs in its copulatory organs, particularly the sioting of the copulatory openings on the female epigyne and the shorter male embolus.
Tomomingi is a genus of African jumping spiders that was first described by T. Szűts & N. Scharff in 2009.
Hasarinella distincta is a species of jumping spider in the genus Hasarinella that lives in South Africa. The species was first described in 2013 by Charles R. Haddad and Wanda Wesołowska. With a dark brown oval cephalothorax] that is between 3.4 and 3.8 mm long and a brown ovoid abdomen that has a length between 3.7 and 4.5 mm. The male has a marking of three white streaks, one in the middle and two along the edges, on the carapace. The female does not. It is the copulatory organs that enable the species to be differentiated from the related Hasarinella berlandi, particularly the wider seminal ducts in the female and the oval palpal bulb in the male. It lives in both grassland and woodland.
Langona tortuosa is a species of jumping spider in the genus Langona that lives in Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe. It was first described in 2011 by Wanda Wesołowska, based on a holotype from Caprivi. The spider is large with a cephalothorax between 2.4 and 2.8 mm long and a abdomen between 1.9 and 2.6 mm long. The female is larger than the male. It has the toothless chelicerae typical of the genus. It can be distinguished by its copulatory organs. The male has a hidden embolus that is shorter than that on the related Langona pilosa. The female has long seminal ducts.
Afraflacilla imitator is a species of jumping spider in the genus Afraflacilla that lives in South Africa. The spider was first described in 2013 by Wanda Wesołowska and Charles Haddad. Originally allocated to the genus Pseudicius, it was moved to its current name by Jerzy Prószyński in 2016. The spider is small to medjum-sized, with a carapace that is between 1.6 and 2.0 long and an abdomen between 1.9 and 3.6 mm long. The female is larger than the male, with a lighter carapace and an abdominal pattern that eight white spots in pairs on a brown background compared to the six paired white spots on a black background that identifies the male. Both have a black eye field. The legs are generally yellow, apart from the front pair on the male, which are brown, longer and stouter. The male has a long embolus that curves over its palpal bulb. The female has an oval epigyne that has wide insemination ducts and long accessory glands. The spiders are very similar to the related Afraflacilla venustula, from which they get their name, but may be distinguished by a study of their copulatory organs.
Asemonea amatola is a species of jumping spider in the genus Asemonea that is endemic to South Africa. It lives in trees in mountain ranges. The spider was first defined in 2013 by Wanda Wesołowska and Charles Haddad. The spider is small, with a white or whitish-yellow pear-shaped carapace between 2.0 and 2.6 mm long and an abdomen between 2.4 and 2.8 mm long that has a pattern of dark dots on an otherwise light surface. The copulatory organs are distinctive. The female has spines on its pedipalps and a large epigyne with two large shallow depressions. The male is larger than the female and has a distinctive pedipalp with a three-armed apophysis on the femur and three apophyses on the tibia.
Propiomarengo plana is a species of jumping spider in the genus Propiomarengo that lives in South Africa. Originally named Afromarengo plana when first described in 2013, the species was renamed 7 years later and made the type species of the new genus. The spider is small, with a grey-beige abdomen that is between 2.4 and 2.8 centimetres in length and a brown carapace that is slightly smaller. Only the female has been described, which has a distinctive epigyne with two depressions flanking a ridge. It has only been found in Free State.
Phintella lajuma is a species of jumping spider in the genus Phintella that lives in South Africa. It was first described in 2013 by Charles Haddad and Wanda Wesołowska, and given a name to reflect the fact that it was first found in the forests around Lajuma Mountain in Soutpansberg. Only the female has so far been described. The spider is medium-sized and lighter in colour than its relative Phintella lucida. It has a light brown carapace and yellow beige abdomen that has a pattern of linesand patches. The epigyne is distinctively large and has a plate at the rear.
Langelurillus cedarbergensis is a species of jumping spider in the genus Langelurillus that lives in South Africa. It was first described in 2013 by Charles Haddad and Wanda Wesołowska. Only the female has been found. The spider lives in fynbos around the Cederberg Mountains, after which the species is named. It is a small spider, with a cephalothorax between 2.6 and 2.7 mm long and an abdomen between 3.4 and 3.8 mm long. It is similar to other related species, particularly Langelurillus namibicus, but can be distinguished by its widely-spaced copulatory openings and short seminal ducts.
Rhene formosa is a species of jumping spider in the genus Rhene that lives in the mountains of Guinea. The female was first identified in 2002 while the male remains unknown. The spider is small, with a line of white hairs on a darker brown carapace and a lighter beige and longer elongated abdomen.
Rhene facilis is a species of jumping spider in the genus Rhene. The spider, spotted in South Africa and Tanzania, is small with distinctive female and male forms. The female is light brown, with grey and red hints, and has a distinctive epigyne. The male is darker in colour, with an almost black carapace and a dark brown abdomen with a white patterns, and has a slightly curved embolus. The male was first described in 2000 and the female in 2013.
Rhene pinguis is a species of jumping spider in the genus Rhene that was identified in South Africa. The male was first described in 2009 and the female in 2018. The spider is flat and hairy, its swollen look giving rise to its species name. The female is slightly larger than the male, but neither have been seen with a cephalothorax longer than 1.5 millimetres (0.059 in) and abdomen more than 2.0 millimetres (0.079 in) in length.
Rhene lingularis is a species of jumping spider in the genus Rhene that can be found in South Africa. The male was first identified in 2011. It is typical of the genus, and is small, dark brown and hairy. The spider is distinguished by its tongue-shaped embolus, from which its species name derives.
Rhene punctatus is a species of jumping spider in the genus Rhene that lives in South Africa. The male was identified in 2013 and has distinctive black dots on its abdomen, which gives rise to its name.
