Amilaps
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Spartaeinae |
| Genus: | Amilaps Maddison, 2019[1] |
| Species: | A. mayana
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| Binomial name | |
| Amilaps mayana Maddison, 2019[1]
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Amilaps is a genus in the jumping spider family Salticidae. As of August 2020, its only species is Amilaps mayana, found in Mexico and Guatemala.[1][2]
Taxonomy[]
The genus and species were first described in 2019 by Wayne Maddison,[1][2] who originally collected the type specimen in 1983 in Teapa, Mexico.[2] Maddison tentatively placed the genus in the tribe Lapsiini, one of the tribes into which the subfamily Spartaeinae is divided.[2]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Gen. Amilaps Maddison, 2019", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2020-08-31
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d 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, doi:10.3897/zookeys.891.38563, PMC 6882923, PMID 31802970
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