Lamottella

Lamottella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum:Chelicerata
Class:Arachnida
Order:Araneae
Infraorder:Araneomorphae
Family:Salticidae
Genus:Lamottella
Rollard & Wesołowska, 2002[1]
Species: L. longipes
Binomial name
Lamottella longipes
Rollard & Wesołowska, 2002[1]

Lamottella is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). 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 2 3 "Gen. Lamottella Rollard & Wesolowska, 2002", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2017-03-18
  2. 1 2 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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