Wanlessia

Wanlessia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Spartaeinae
Genus: Wanlessia
Wijesinghe, 1992
Type species
Wanlessia sedgwicki
Wijesinghe, 1992
Species

see text

Diversity
2 species

Wanlessia is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). It is the only member of the subfamily Spartaeinae with a well-developed palpal conductor.[1] Both species are only described from male specimens.[2]

Wanlessia is related to Portia.[3]

Description

The male of W. sedgwicki is about 4 mm long. Its carapace is yellowish-brown with irregular black markings, with a lighter area around the fovea. The whitish-yellow opisthosoma has similar markings at the rear and is covered with amber-grey hairs. The dark yellowish-brown legs bear black rings on some segments.[3]

Name

The genus is named in honor of arachnologist Fred R. Wanless, who described more than a dozen salticid genera in the 1970 and '80s.

Species

Footnotes

  1. Wijesinghe 1992
  2. Platnick 2007
  3. 1 2 Murphy & Murphy 2000: 295

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