Vailimia

Taxobox


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name = "Vailimia"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
familia = Salticidae
subfamilia = Pelleninae
tribus = Harmochirini
genus = "Vailimia"
genus_authority = Kammerer, 2006
diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Vailimia
diversity = 1 species
species = "V. masinei"
binomial = "Vailimia masinei"
binomial_authority = (Peckham & Peckham, 1907)
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synonyms ="Vailima masinei"

"Vailimia" is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Its only species occurs only in Borneo.

The species was originally described from a single male in 1907, which is about six millimeters long, and said to be close to "Harmochirus". However, the male pedipalp, chelicera and cephalothorax drawn by Proszynski (1984), and recently collected specimens indicate otherwise. [Murphy & Murphy 2000: 273]

Name

Vailima is the name of the last residence of Robert Louis Stevenson and the village where it is situated. The genus was renamed to "Vailimia" in 2006 due to a conflict with a fish genus, "Vailima". The original name "Vailima" was used by Peckham & Peckham, 1907.

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

aut|Prószyński, J. (1984): Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae). Wyzsza Szkola Rolniczo-Pedagogiczna, Siedlcach 2: 1-177.