Ligdus

Ligdus is a genus of jumping spiders found in Burma. It contains only one species, Ligdus chelifer.[1]

Ligdus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Ligdus
Species:
L. chelifer
Binomial name
Ligdus chelifer

The species was described in 1895 from a single female specimen. Eugène Simon thought it to be close to Copocrossa.[2] The habitus of an immature specimen, already showing the large spiny front legs, was drawn by Proszynski in 1984.

Footnotes

  1. "Salticidae". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  2. Murphy & Murphy 2000: 271

References

  • Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
  • Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.

Further reading

  • Proszynski, J. (1984): Diagnostic drawings of less well known Salticidae/Araneae, an atlas. WSRP, Siedlce, Poland.


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