- Amatorculus
Taxobox
name = "Amatorculus"
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regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
classis =Arachnid a
ordo = Araneae
familia = Salticidae
subfamilia =Sitticinae
genus = "Amatorculus"
genus_authority = Ruiz & Brescovit, 2005
diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Amatorculus
diversity = 1 species
range_
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species = "Amatorculus stygius"
binomial = "Amatorculus stygius"
binomial_authority = Ruiz & Brescovit, 2005"Amatorculus" is a
genus of thejumping spider s, with a single described species.Name
The genus name means "small friend" in
Latin . Theepitheton "stygius" isLatin for "from hell"Distribution
"Amatorculus" is known from
Distrito Federal and the State ofSão Paulo inBrazil .References
* (2007): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.0. "American Museum of Natural History".
External links
* [http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-81752005000300026&lng=en&nrm=&tlng=en Three new genera of jumping spider from Brazil (Araneae, Salticidae) (2005)]
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