Ligdus

Ligdus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Ballinae
Genus: Ligdus
Thorell, 1895
Species: L. chelifer
Binomial name
Ligdus chelifer
Thorell, 1895
Diversity
1 species

Ligdus is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Its only described species, L. chelifer, is only found in Burma.

The species was described in 1895 from a single female specimen. Eugène Simon thought it to be close to Copocrossa.[1] The habitus of an immature specimen, already showing the large spiny front legs, was drawn by Proszynski in 1984.

Footnotes

  1. Murphy & Murphy 2000: 271

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