Pellolessertia

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Pellolessertia
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Pellolessertia
Strand, 1929[1]
Species:
P. castanea
Binomial name
Pellolessertia castanea
(Lessert, 1927)

Pellolessertia is a monotypic genus of African jumping spiders containing the single species, Pellolessertia castanea. It was first described in 1927,[2] and is only found in Africa.[1] Dippenaar-Schoeman & Jocqué gave the distribution range as to Ethiopia.[3]

The name is a combination of the salticid genus Pellenes, due to its resemblance it and several other genera in the subfamily , and the arachnologist Lessert.[4] It was first discovered in , Democratic Republic of the Congo, and given the name Avakubia. In 1929, the name was changed to "Pellolessertia" because its previous name was already being used for a gastropod subgenus in Streptaxidae.

References[]

  1. ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Pellolessertia Strand, 1929". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-08.
  2. ^ Lessert, R. de (1927). "Araignées du Congo (Premiere partie)". Revue Suisse de Zoologie. 34: 442. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.117612.
  3. ^ Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S.; Jocqué, R. (1997). African Spiders: An Identification Manual. pp. 1–392.
  4. ^ Strand, E. (1929). "Zoological and palaeontological nomenclatorical notes". Acta Universitatis Latviensis. 20: 1–29.

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