- Ligdus
Taxobox
name = "Ligdus"
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropoda
classis =Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
familia =Salticidae
subfamilia =Ballinae
tribus =Copocrossini
genus = "Ligdus"
genus_authority = Thorell, 1895
diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Ligdus
diversity = 1 species
range_
range_map_width = 250px
species = "L. chelifer"
binomial = "Ligdus chelifer"
binomial_authority = Thorell, 1895"Ligdus" is a
spider genus of theSalticidae family (jumping spiders). Its only described species, "L. chelifer", is only found inBurma .The species was described in 1895 from a single female specimen.
Eugène Simon thought it to be close to "Copocrossa ". [Murphy & Murphy 2000: 271] The habitus of an immature specimen, already showing the large spiny front legs, was drawn by Proszynski in 1984.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".Further reading
* (1984): Diagnostic drawings of less well known Salticidae/Araneae, an atlas. WSRP, Siedlce, Poland.
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