Pellolessertia

Pellolessertia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Euophryinae
Genus: Pellolessertia
Strand, 1929
Species: P. castanea
Binomial name
Pellolessertia castanea
(Lessert, 1927)
Synonyms

Avakubia castanea

Pellolessertia is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). So far, only one species, P. castanea, has been found in Cameroon, Congo and Ethiopia.

Males are about six millimeters long.

The most similar genus seems to be Monomotapa (Szüts & Scharff, 2005).

Distribution

The species was first found in Avakubi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and it has been recorded in Cameroon. Dippenaar-Schoeman & Jocqué (1997) give the distribution range as Zad're to Ethiopia.

Name

The genus name is derived in part from the arachnologist Lessert, and also from the salticid genus Pellenes because it bears resemblance to several genera in the subfamily Pelleninae.

Its original genus name Avakubia was changed in 1929 because that name was preoccupied for a gastropod subgenus (Gulella (Avakubia) Pilsbry, 1919, Streptaxidae, Stylommatophora).

References

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