Maileus

Maileus
Maileus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Hasariinae
Genus: Maileus
Peckham & Peckham, 1907
Species: M. fuscus
Binomial name
Maileus fuscus
Peckham & Peckham, 1907
Diversity
1 species

Maileus is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Its only species, M. fuscus, is only known from Sarawak and Sumatra. According to its original describers, it is closely related to the genus Microhasarius.

M. fuscus is known only from a single female, which is about 6 mm long. Although no published drawings exist, Zabka has drawn the genitalia, and Proszynski has drawn the genitalia of both sexes of what is probably a different species of Maileus.[1] No study has been published on the genus since its first description[2].

Name

The species name is derived from Latin fuscus "dusky, brown".

Footnotes

  1. ^ Murphy & Murphy 2000: 272
  2. ^ Platnick 2007

References

  • Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
  • Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.


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