Vicirionessa

Vicirionessa
Male Vicirionessa mustela
Female Vicirionessa mustela
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Genus:	Vicirionessa Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 [1]
Species
See text.
Synonyms [1]
Brancus

Vicirionessa is a genus of African spiders in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders). ^[1]

Species

As of October 2025 ^[update] , this genus includes thirteen species: ^[1]

• Vicirionessa albocincta (Thorell, 1899) – Sierra Leone, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Uganda
• Vicirionessa besanconi (Berland & Millot, 1941) – Guinea, Nigeria
• Vicirionessa chabanaudi (Fage, 1923) – Liberia
• Vicirionessa equestris (Simon, 1903) – Guinea, Ivory Coast, Gabon
• Vicirionessa fuscimana (Simon, 1903) – Equatorial Guinea
• Vicirionessa ignota Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Uganda
• Vicirionessa mustela (Simon, 1902) – Angola, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa
• Vicirionessa niveimana (Simon, 1902) – Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Mozambique
• Vicirionessa occidentalis (Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011) – Guinea, Nigeria
• Vicirionessa peckhamorum (Lessert, 1927) – Guinea, Nigeria, DR Congo, Uganda, Mozambique (type species)
• Vicirionessa signata (Dawidowicz & Wesołowska, 2016) – Ivory Coast, Kenya
• Vicirionessa spinosa Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Mozambique
• Vicirionessa tergina (Simon, 1903) – Equatorial Guinea

References

1. "Gen. Vicirionessa Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2025-10-17.

External links

• Citizen science observations for Vicirionessa at iNaturalist