Wanlessia

Taxobox
name = "Wanlessia"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
familia = Salticidae
subfamilia = Spartaeinae
tribus = Spartaeini
genus = "Wanlessia"
genus_authority = Wijesinghe, 1992
diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Wanlessia
diversity = 2 species
type_species = "Wanlessia sedgwicki"
type_species_authority = Wijesinghe, 1992
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"Wanlessia" is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). It is the only member of the subfamily Spartaeinae with a well-developed palpal conductorWijesinghe 1992] . Both species are only described from male specimens [Platnick 2007] .

"Wanlessia" is related to "Portia"Murphy & Murphy 2000: 295] .

Description

The male of "W. sedgwicki" is about 4 mm long. Its carapace is yellowish-brown with irregular black markings, with a lighter area around the fovea. The whitish-yellow opisthosoma has similar markings at the rear and is covered with amber-grey hairs. The dark yellowish-brown legs bear black rings on some segments.

Name

The genus is named in honor of arachnologist Fred R. Wanless, who described more than a dozen salticid genera in the 1970 and '80s.

pecies

* "Wanlessia denticulata" Peng, Tso & Li, 2002 — Taiwan
* "Wanlessia sedgwicki" Wijesinghe, 1992 — Borneo (Sarawak)

Footnotes

References

* (1992): A new genus of jumping spider from Borneo with notes on the Spartaeine palp (Araneae: Salticidae). "The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology" 40: 9-19. [http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/40/40rbz009-019.pdf PDF]
* (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".

External links

* Salticidae.org: [http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/wanlessi/denticul.htm Diagnostic drawings of "W. denticulata"]