Galianora bryicola

Taxobox
name = "Galianora bryicola"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
subordo = Araneomorphae
familia = Salticidae
subfamilia =
genus = "Galianora"
species = "G. bryicola"
binomial = "Galianora bryicola"
binomial_authority = Maddison, 2006
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"Galianora bryicola" is a species of jumping spider from Ecuador.

Males are about 4 mm long, adult females are not yet known. This species is brown with a generalized salticid body form. The carapace is brown to black with a pale central longitudinal stripe on the thorax. The back of the abdomen is medium brown with indistinct speckling, the underside is black.Maddison 2006]

One male was collected on a tree trunk, several juveniles were collected by beating moss-covered branches and tree trunks in the understory of lowland rainforest.

Name

The species name refers to the habitat of mossy tree trunks: "bryicola" means "dwelling on moss".

Footnotes

References

* (2006): New lapsiine jumping spiders from Ecuador (Araneae: Salticidae). "Zootaxa" 1255: 17-28. [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2006/zt01255p028.pdf PDF]
* (2007): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.0. "American Museum of Natural History".