Canama

Taxobox
name = "Canama"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
familia = Salticidae
subfamilia = Euophryinae
tribus = Cytaeini
genus = "Canama"
genus_authority = Simon, 1903
diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Canama
diversity = 6 species
type_species = "Salticus forceps"
type_species_authority = Doleschall, 1859
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"Canama" is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Its five described species occur from Borneo to Queensland.

This genus is very similar to "Bathippus".Murphy & Murphy 2000: 283]

Description

Females are up to 8 mm long, males up to 10 mm. The longish abdomen is clothed in white hairs with red streaks and bands. Males have very large, long chelicerae which diverge and project forwards. The long, spiny legs are dark with pale tarsi and metatarsi.

pecies

* "Canama dorcas" (Thorell, 1881) — Moluccas
* "Canama forceps" (Doleschall, 1859) — New Guinea
* "Canama hinnulea" (Thorell, 1881) — Queensland
* "Canama inquirenda" Strand, 1911 — Kei Islands
* "Canama lacerans" (Thorell, 1881) — Malaysia
* "Canama rutila" Peckham & Peckham, 1907 — Borneo

Footnotes

References

* (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. "Malaysian Nature Society", Kuala Lumpur.
* (2007): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.0. "American Museum of Natural History".