Vailimia

Vailimia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Pelleninae
Genus: Vailimia
Kammerer, 2006
Species: V. masinei
Binomial name
Vailimia masinei
(Peckham & Peckham, 1907)
Diversity
1 species
Synonyms

Vailima masinei

Vailimia is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Its only species occurs only in Borneo.

The species was originally described from a single male in 1907, which is about six millimeters long, and said to be close to Harmochirus. However, the male pedipalp, chelicera and cephalothorax drawn by Proszynski (1984), and recently collected specimens indicate otherwise.[1]

Name

Vailima is the name of the last residence of Robert Louis Stevenson and the village where it is situated. The genus was renamed to Vailimia in 2006 due to a conflict with a fish genus, Vailima. The original name Vailima was used by Peckham & Peckham, 1907.

Footnotes

  1. Murphy & Murphy 2000: 273

References

Further reading

Prószyński, J. (1984): Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae). Wyzsza Szkola Rolniczo-Pedagogiczna, Siedlcach 2: 1-177.


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