Afraflacilla
| Afraflacilla | |
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| An undescribed Afraflacilla species, Tennant Creek NT Australia | |
| A. grayorum from Kiwirrkurra Indigenous Protected Area in the Gibson Desert, Western Australia | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Afraflacilla Berland & Millot, 1941 |
| Type species | |
| Afraflacilla bamakoi Berland & Millot, 1941
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| Species | |
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Afraflacilla is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders). Most species are distributed in Eastern to Northern Africa (including the Middle East) and Australia, with two species (A. epiblemoides and A. tarajalis) found in Europe.
Spiders in this genus can produce sounds by rubbing a part of its leg against the head, using specialized structures, a process called stridulation. Some African species, both adults and juveniles, use their stridulatory organs for social communal behaviour.