Afraflacilla braunsi

Afraflacilla braunsi is a small to medium-sized slender and long spider with unique physical features. The male of the species has a carapace that is between 1.8 and 1.9 mm (0.07 and 0.07 in) long and typically 1.3 mm (0.05 in) wide. It is flat and elongated with a clearly visible fovea. There are two black patches, long brown bristles and thin grey hairs on the eye field and black rings and white scales around the eyes. There is a white band that crosses the spiders' face, or clypeus. The top is brown, occasionally with orange sides. It has a white band that thins towards the back. The sides have white hairs and the underside of the carapace, or sternum, is light brown. The spider has mouthparts consisting of dark brown chelicerae, light brown labium and pale tips on the otherwise brown maxilae. The spider has stridulatory apparatus that include short hairs situated under the eyes. The male spider's abdomen is between 2.2 and 2.4 mm (0.09 and 0.09 in) long and 1.1 and 1.2 mm (0.04 and 0.05 in) wide. It is a brown elongated oval. Some examples are light brown with a vague brownish line across the front and a large darker rear area. Others have a brownish pattern with four lighter patches in the middle and eight large lighter patches to the sides. It is covered in long brown and grey hairs. The underside is greyish-yellow. The spinnerets are brown. …

Afraflacilla braunsi lives in Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. Although relatively rare, it is thought that the species is widely distributed. The first example was found in Willowmore, which is now in Eastern Cape, South Africa. The first example to be found outside South Africa was discovered in the Repetek Biosphere State Reserve in Turkmenistan in 1980. Logunov, who identified the sample as an example of the species noted the huge gap between these finds and attributed it to the poor understanding of jumping spiders. Other examples were also noted in Asia. The example from Saudi Arabia originally called Pseudisius tripunctatus was a female first found in Ash-Sharaʼiʽ in 1978. The species has been seen across Yemen, thriving in the Dhamar, Sanaa, Taiz Governorates. It has been discovered living near the cities of Sanaa and Taiz, and in the Al Manar District, near a village called Hammam 'Ali, the first example being found in 1997. The first specimen to be seen in the United Arab Emirates was described in 2020. It had been found in Al Wathba Wetland Reserve in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.