Veissella

Veissella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Spartaeinae
Genus:
Wanless, 1984[1]
Type species
V. durbani
(Peckham & Peckham, 1903)
Species

Veissella is a genus of African jumping spiders that was first described by F. R. Wanless in 1984.[2] As of August 2019 it contains two species, found in Africa: V. durbani and V. milloti.[1]

"The genus name is an arbitrary combination of letters; the gender is considered feminine".[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "Gen. Veissella Wanless, 1984". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-29.
  2. ^ a b Wanless, F. R. (1984). "A review of the spider subfamily Spartaeinae nom. n. (Araneae: Salticidae) with descriptions of six new genera". Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History. 46: 135–205. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.15964.


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