Hersiliola versicolor
| Hersiliola versicolor | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Hersiliidae |
| Genus: | Hersiliola |
| Species: | H. versicolor
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| Binomial name | |
| Hersiliola versicolor Blackwall, 1865
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| Synonyms | |
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Hersilia versicolor (Blackwall, 1865) | |
Hersiliola versicolor is a species of spiders of the family Hersiliidae that lives in Cape Verde, the species are also endemic.[1] Along with Steatoda fallax and quinquenotata, the species were named by John Blackwall in 1865 and was the first of the Hersiliola species. Before the Hersiliola specles was described in 1870, it was a placed as a species of Hersilia.
Its species name refers to different colors of its skin.
Description
Females are measured between 3.75 and 4.08 mm which were described by Foord and Dippenaar-Schoeman[2]
References
- ^ Platnick, Norman I. (2010). "The World Spider Catalog". 10. American Museum of Natural History.
- ^ Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, p. 255-279
Further reading
- Blackwall (1865) Descriptions of recently discovered spiders collected in the Cape de Verde Islands by John Gray, Esq. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 3, vol. 16, p. 80-101
- Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2005 : A revision of the Afrotropical species of Hersiliola Thorell and Tama Simon with the description of a new genus Tyrotama (Araneae: Hersiliidae). African Entomology, vol. 13
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