Biology:Lamottella
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Short description: Genus of spiders
| Lamottella | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Lamottella Rollard & Wesołowska, 2002[1] |
| Species: | L. longipes
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| Binomial name | |
| Lamottella longipes Rollard & Wesołowska, 2002[1]
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Lamottella is a spider genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae. Its single described species, Lamotella longipes, is found in Guinea.[1]
Description
The male spider is about 5.5 millimetres (0.22 in) long. The female is not yet known.[2]
Taxonomy
The genus is named in honor of Maxime Lamotte, an ecologist and frog specialist who initiated the early expeditions into the Nimba Mountains. The specific name longipes means "long-legged".[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Gen. Lamottella Rollard & Wesolowska, 2002", World Spider Catalog (Natural History Museum Bern), http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2728, retrieved 2017-03-18
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Rollard, Ch.; Wesołowska, W. (2002), "Jumping spiders (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae) from the Nimba Mountains in Guinea", Zoosystema 24 (2): 283–307, http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/z2002n2a5.pdf, retrieved 2017-03-18
Wikidata ☰ Q1311091 entry
