Pellolessertia
| Pellolessertia | |
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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: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Pellolessertia Strand, 1929 |
| Species: | P. castanea
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| Binomial name | |
| Pellolessertia castanea (Lessert, 1927)[1]
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| Synonyms | |
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Avakubia castanea | |
Pellolessertia is a genus of jumping spiders found in Cameroon, Congo and Ethiopia. As of 2017[update], it contains only one species, Pellolessertia castanea.[1] The species was first found in Avakubi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and its original genus name was Avakubia. It was changed in 1929 because that name was preoccupied for a gastropod subgenus (Gulella (Avakubia) Pilsbry, 1919, Streptaxidae, Stylommatophora). Dippenaar-Schoeman & Jocqué (1997) give the distribution range as Zad're to Ethiopia.
Name
The genus name is derived in part from the arachnologist Lessert, and also from the salticid genus Pellenes because it bears resemblance to several genera in the subfamily Pelleninae.
References
- ^ a b "Salticidae". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2017-04-19.
- Szűts, T. & Scharff, N. (2005): Redescriptions of little known jumping spider genera (Araneae: Salticidae) from West Africa. Acta zoologica hungarica 51(4): 357-378. PDF
- Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
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