The jumping spiders of Mozambique (Araneae: Salticidae) Author Haddad, Charles Richard 0000-0002-2317-7760 haddadcr @ ufs. ac. za; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2317 - 7760 haddadcr@ufs.ac.za Author Wiśniewski, Konrad 0000-0002-6780-3292 Institute of Biology, Pomeranian University in Słupsk, Arciszewskiego 22 a, 76 - 200 Słupsk, Poland & konrad. wisniewski. araneae @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6780 - 3292 konrad.wisniewski.araneae@gmail.com Author Wesołowska, Wanda 0000-0002-4411-1058 Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of the Free State, P. O. Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa & Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, University of Wrocław, Przybyszewskiego 65, 51 - 148 Wrocław, Poland & Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of the Free State, P. O. Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa & wanda. h. wesolowska @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4411 - 1058 * Corresponding author wanda.h.wesolowska@gmail.com text Zootaxa 2024 2024-12-27 5560 1 1 92 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5560.1.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5560.1.1 1175-5334 0F942970-010E-4775-856E-31CA016DAD50 Mexcala elegans Peckham & Peckham, 1903 Mexcala elegans Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 248 , pl. 29, fig. 2 ( ♂ ); Wesołowska & Haddad 2009: 56 , fig. 101–104, 247 ( ♂ ♀ ); Wesołowska 2009a: 158 , fig. 2, 30–46 ( ♂ ♀ ). Cosmophasis natalensis Lawrence, 1942: 184 , fig. 30 ( ♂ ♀ ). Mexcala natalensis (Lawrence) : Wesołowska & Cumming 2008: 197 , figs 92–97 ( ♂ ♀ ). Material examined. MOZAMBIQUE : Inhambane : Bartholomew Diaz Point , 21°15.585’S , 35°06.851’E , leaf litter, mangroves, 10.XII.2007 , leg. C. Haddad , R. Lyle & R. Fourie , 1♀ ( NCA 2020 /118) . Maputo : Inhaca Island , wetland, pitfall traps , 21.II–3.III.1994 , leg. T. Steyn , 1♀ ( MRAC 209452 ); Same data but 5–15.III.1994 , 1♀ ( MRAC 209380 ); Same data but 14–28.V.1994 , 1♀ ( MRAC 209809 ) . Distribution. Known from southern and western Africa. Recorded from Mozambique for the first time.