Pellolessertia

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

Avakubia castanea

Pellolessertia is a genus of jumping spiders found in Cameroon, Congo and Ethiopia. As of 2017, 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

  1. 1 2 "Salticidae". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2017-04-19.
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