Vailimia
| Vailimia | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Pelleninae |
| Genus: | Vailimia Kammerer, 2006 |
| Species: | V. masinei |
| Binomial name | |
| Vailimia masinei (Peckham & Peckham, 1907) | |
| Diversity | |
| 1 species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Vailima masinei | |
Vailimia is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Its only species occurs only in Borneo.
The species was originally described from a single male in 1907, which is about six millimeters long, and said to be close to Harmochirus. However, the male pedipalp, chelicera and cephalothorax drawn by Proszynski (1984), and recently collected specimens indicate otherwise.[1]
Name
Vailima is the name of the last residence of Robert Louis Stevenson and the village where it is situated. The genus was renamed to Vailimia in 2006 due to a conflict with a fish genus, Vailima. The original name Vailima was used by Peckham & Peckham, 1907.
Footnotes
- ↑ Murphy & Murphy 2000: 273
References
- Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
- Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
Further reading
Prószyński, J. (1984): Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae). Wyzsza Szkola Rolniczo-Pedagogiczna, Siedlcach 2: 1-177.