Trapezocephalus
Genus of spiders
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Trapezocephalus is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders).
| Trapezocephalus | |
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| female T. lesserti | |
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| male T. capicola | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Trapezocephalus Berland & Millot, 1941 |
| Type species | |
| Trapezocephalus aelurilliformis Berland & Millot, 1941[1] | |
| Species | |
Species
male T. deamatus
male T. lesserti
male T. orchesta
male T. transvaalicus
As of October 2025[update], this genus includes fourteen species:[1]
- Trapezocephalus aviculus (Berland & Millot, 1941) – Central, West Africa
- Trapezocephalus capicola (Simon, 1901) – South Africa, Lesotho
- Trapezocephalus cassinicola (Simon, 1909) – West, Central, East Africa, Mozambique, Yemen (type species)
- Trapezocephalus deamatus (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903) – Central, Southern Africa
- Trapezocephalus harpago (Simon, 1909) – Central, West Africa
- Trapezocephalus infaustus (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903) – East Africa, Zimbabwe
- Trapezocephalus kittenbergeri (Caporiacco, 1947) – Tanzania
- Trapezocephalus lesserti (Wesołowska, 1986) – Central, Southern Africa
- Trapezocephalus ndumoensis (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013) – South Africa
- Trapezocephalus orchesta (Simon, 1886) – Ivory Coast, DR Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Madagascar
- Trapezocephalus robustus (Berland & Millot, 1941) – Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, DR Congo
- Trapezocephalus semirasus (Lawrence, 1928) – Namibia
- Trapezocephalus transvaalicus (Simon, 1901) – South Africa
- Trapezocephalus tristis (Wesołowska, 2003) – Ethiopia
