Biology:Lamottella

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Lamottella
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
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
Binomial name
Lamottella longipes
Rollard & Wesołowska, 2002[1]

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. 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. 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