Lakarobius

Taxobox
name = "Lakarobius"


image_caption =
image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
familia = Salticidae
subfamilia = Euophryinae
tribus = Euophryini
genus = "Lakarobius"
genus_authority = Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998
diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Lakarobius
diversity = 1 species
species = "L. alboniger"
binomial = "Lakarobius alboniger"
binomial_authority = Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998
range_

range_map_width = 250px
synonyms =

"Lakarobius" is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Its only species, "L. alboniger", is endemic to Fiji.

Name

"Lakarobius" signifies living in trees, from Greek "lakara", a kind of tree, and "bios", life.The epitheton "alboniger" means "white-black", because of the spider's black and white dorsal pattern.

References

* (1998): Salticidae of the Pacific Islands. III. Distribution of Seven Genera, with Description of Nineteen New Species and Two New Genera. "Journal of Arachnology" 26(2): 149-189. [http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v26_n2/JoA_v26_p149.pdf PDF]
* (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.miiz.waw.pl/salticid/diagnost/lakarob/albonig.htm Diagnostic drawings of "L. alboniger"]