Lamottella

Taxobox
name = "Lamottella"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
familia = Salticidae
genus = "Lamottella"
genus_authority = Rollard & Wesolowska, 2002
diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Lamottella
diversity = 1 species
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species = "L. longipes"
binomial = "Lamottella longipes"
binomial_authority = Rollard & Wesolowska, 2002

"Lamottella" is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Its single described species is found in Guinea.

Name

The genus is named in honor of Maxime Lamotte, an ecologist and frog specialist who initiated the early expeditions into the Nimba Mountains."longipes" means "long-legged".

Appearance

The male spider is about 5.5mm long. The female is not yet known.

References

* (2002): Jumping spiders (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae) from the Nimba Mountains in Guinea. "Zoosystema" 24(2): 283-307. [http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/zoosyst/z02n2a5.pdf PDF]
* (2007): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.0. "American Museum of Natural History".