Biology:Maileus

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Maileus
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Maileus
Peckham & Peckham, 1907[1]
Species:
M. fuscus
Binomial name
Maileus fuscus
Peckham & Peckham, 1907

Maileus is a monotypic genus of jumping spiders containing the single species, Maileus fuscus. It was first described by G. Peckham & Elizabeth Peckham in 1907,[2] and is only found on Borneo.[1] It is closely related to the genus Microhasarius.[2]

M. fuscus is known only from a single female, which is about 6 millimetres (0.24 in) long. Although no published drawings exist, Zabka has drawn the genitalia, and Proszynski has drawn the genitalia of both sexes of what is probably a different species of Maileus.[3] No study has been published on the genus since its first description.[1]

Name

The species name is derived from Latin fuscus "dusky, brown".

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gen. Maileus Peckham & Peckham, 1907. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2762. Retrieved 2019-07-19. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Peckham, G.; Peckham, E. G. (1907). "The Attidae of Borneo". Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 15: 603–653. 
  3. Murphy, Frances; Murphy, John (2000). "An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia". Malaysian Nature Society (Kuala Lumpur): 272. 

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