Lamottella

Lamottella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus:
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. ^ a b c "Gen. Lamottella Rollard & Wesolowska, 2002", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2017-03-18
  2. ^ a b Rollard, Ch. & Wesołowska, W. (2002), "Jumping spiders (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae) from the Nimba Mountains in Guinea" (PDF), Zoosystema, 24 (2): 283–307, retrieved 2017-03-18


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