Lamottella
| Lamottella | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Subkingdom: | Eumetazoa |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Section: | Dionycha |
| Superfamily: | Salticoidea |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Genus: | Lamottella Rollard & Wesolowska, 2002 |
| Species: | L. longipes |
| Binomial name | |
| Lamottella longipes Rollard & Wesolowska, 2002 | |
| Diversity | |
| 1 species | |
Lamottella is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Its single described species is found in Guinea.
Name
The genus is named in honor of Maxime Lamotte, an ecologist and frog specialist who initiated the early expeditions into the Nimba Mountains. longipes means "long-legged".
Appearance
The male spider is about 5.5mm long. The female is not yet known.
References
- Rollard, Ch. & Wesolowska, W. (2002): Jumping spiders (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae) from the Nimba Mountains in Guinea. Zoosystema 24(2): 283-307. PDF
- Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
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