Bristowia

Bristowia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Section: Dionycha
Superfamily: Salticoidea
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Agoriinae
Genus: Bristowia
Reimoser, 1934
Species

see text

Diversity
2 species

Bristowia is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders) with two species. One is found in Africa, the other is Asia.

B. heterospinosa is about 3 to 4 mm long in both sexes.[1]

Name

The genus is named after naturalist and arachnologist W. S. Bristowe.

Species

Footnotes

  1. Murphy & Murphy 2000: 290

References

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