Amilaps
Appearance
Amilaps | |
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Amilaps mayana | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Salticidae |
Genus: | Amilaps Maddison, 2019[1] |
Species: | A. mayana
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Binomial name | |
Amilaps mayana |
Amilaps is a monotypic genus of jumping spiders containing the single species, Amilaps mayana. It was first described in 2019 by Wayne Maddison,[1] who originally collected the type specimen in 1983 in Teapa, Mexico. The genus was tentatively placed in the tribe Lapsiini, a division of the subfamily Spartaeinae.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Gen. Amilaps Maddison, 2019". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
- ^ Maddison, W. P. (2019). "A new lapsiine jumping spider from North America, with a review of Simon's Lapsias species (Araneae, Salticidae, Spartaeinae)". ZooKeys (891): 17–29. Bibcode:2019ZooK..891...17M. doi:10.3897/zookeys.891.38563. PMC 6882923. PMID 31802970.