Lilliput (genus)
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Lilliput is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders), with three described species that all occur in the Mkomazi Game Reserve of Tanzania.
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[edit] Description
These minute spiders range in body length from 1.5 to 3 mm. Both sexes look alike, but the females are sometimes darker.
[edit] Relationships
This genus is related to the genera Euophrys and Talavera.
[edit] Name
The genus name is derived from Lilliput, a land in Jonathan Swift's book Gulliver's Travels that is inhabited by minute people.
[edit] Species
- Lilliput minutus Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 (Tanzania)
- Lilliput mkomaziensis Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 (Tanzania, Ivory Coast, Nigeria)
- Lilliput pusillus Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 (Tanzania)
[edit] References
- Wesolowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2000). Jumping spiders from Mkomazi Game Reserve in Tanzania (Araneae: Salticidae). Trop. Zool. 13: 11-127. PDF (with description of all species)
