Eburneana

Eburneana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Eburneana
Wesolowska & Szűts, 2001
Type species
Eburneana scharffi
Wesolowska & Szűts, 2001
Species

see text

Diversity
3 species

Eburneana is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders).

Like several other salticids, this genus mimicks ants.

Description

Eburneana are rather big ant-like (8 to 12 mm) spiders with a constricted cephalothorax. The body is very flat and rather slender. The cephalic and thoracic parts are parted by a clear constriction to mimic the ant body plan. Unlike other African ant-like salticids Eburneana has the chelicerae located more posteriorly, rich leg spination and clearly visible large spigots on the posterior spinnerets.

Relationships

The structure of genitalia and the shape of the first legs resembles males of the subfamily Pelleninae, but the phylogenetic relationships of Eburneana to other genera are unclear.

Name

The genus is named after the Latin name of Ivory Coast, Litus Eburneum, where one of the species was first found.

Species

References

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