Veissella

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Veissella

| authority = Wanless, 1984

| type_species = V. durbani

| type_species_authority = (Peckham & Peckham, 1903)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = {{Specieslist

| V. durbani|(Peckham & Peckham, 1903) – South Africa

| V. milloti|Logunov & Azarkina, 2008 – Comoros, Mayotte}}

}}

Veissella is a genus of African jumping spiders that was first described by F. R. Wanless in 1984.{{cite journal| last=Wanless| first=F. R.| year=1984| title=A review of the spider subfamily Spartaeinae nom. n. (Araneae: Salticidae) with descriptions of six new genera| journal=Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History| pages=135–205| volume=46| doi=10.5962/bhl.part.15964| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/15964}} {{as of|2019|08}} it contains two species, found in Africa: V. durbani and V. milloti.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Veissella Wanless, 1984| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-09-29| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3044| doi=10.24436/2}}

"The genus name is an arbitrary combination of letters; the gender is considered feminine".