Ansienulina

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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.{{CiteQ|Q21341244}} {{As of|2017}}, it contains only one species, Ansienulina mirabilis, found in Kenya, Angola, and Namibia.{{cite web|title=Salticidae| website=World Spider Catalog| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| access-date=2017-03-22| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/5509}}

Wesołowska placed the genus in the subfamily Thiratoscirtinae, which Maddison reduced to the subtribe Thiratoscirtina in the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae.

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{{Citation |mode=cs1 |last1=Maddison |first1=Wayne P. |title=A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) |journal=Journal of Arachnology |date=2015 |volume=43 |issue=3 |pages=231–292 |doi=10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292|s2cid=85680279 }}

{{Citation |mode=cs1 |last1=Wesołowska |first1=W. |date=2015 |title=Ansienulina, a new genus of jumping spiders from tropical Africa (Araneae: Salticidae: Thiratoscirtinae) |journal=African Invertebrates |volume=56 |issue=2 |pages=477–482 |doi=10.5733/afin.056.0216 |doi-access=free }}

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Category:Salticidae

Category:Monotypic Salticidae genera

Category:Spiders of Africa

Category:Taxa named by Wanda Wesołowska

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