Ansienulina is a genus of spiders in the jumping spider family Salticidae. It was first described in 2015 by Wanda Wesołowska. This genus was named in honour of South African arachnologist Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman.[2] As of 2017[update], it contains only one species, Ansienulina mirabilis, found in Kenya, Angola, and Namibia.[1]
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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: | Ansienulina Wesołowska, 2015[1] |
| Species: | A. mirabilis
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| Ansienulina mirabilis Wesołowska, 2015[1]
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Wesołowska placed the genus in the subfamily Thiratoscirtinae,[3] which Maddison reduced to the subtribe Thiratoscirtina in the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Salticidae". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2017-03-22.
- ^ Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman, Wikidata Q21341244
- ^ Wesołowska, W. (2015). "Ansienulina, a new genus of jumping spiders from tropical Africa (Araneae: Salticidae: Thiratoscirtinae)". African Invertebrates. 56 (2): 477–482. doi:10.5733/afin.056.0216.
- ^ Maddison, Wayne P. (2015). "A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)". Journal of Arachnology. 43 (3): 231–292. doi:10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292. S2CID 85680279.
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