Chrysilla lauta

Chrysilla lauta
Chrysilla lauta in Kerala
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Heliophaninae
Genus: Chrysilla
Species: C. lauta
Binomial name
Chrysilla lauta
Thorell, 1887

Chrysilla lauta is the type species of the jumping spider genus Chrysilla. It occurs in rain forest[1] from Burma to China and Vietnam. Although known since 1887, it has only been described from male specimens.[2]

Description

The male is very slender. Its carapace is orange-red, with a narrow bluish-white, iridescent transverse stripe between the eyes. The robust chelicerae do not point forward. The long scutum of the opisthosoma is dark brown and covered with dense, bronze-colored hairs. The long legs are brownish-yellow, with the first pair, and the last segments of the others brown.[1]

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Murphy & Murphy 2000: 298
  2. Platnick 2007

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