Sparbambus

Taxobox
name = "Sparbambus"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
subordo = Araneomorphae
familia = Salticidae
subfamilia = Spartaeinae
genus = "Sparbambus"
genus_authority = Zhang, Woon & Li, 2006
diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Sparbambus
diversity = 1 species
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species = "S. gombakensis"
binomial = "Sparbambus gombakensis"
binomial_authority = Zhang, Woon & Li, 2006

"Sparbambus gombakensis" is a species of jumping spider that has to date only been found in Malaysia.

It is similar to the related genus "Wanlessia".Zhang 2006]

Description

Females have a total body length of about 6.6 mm, males are slightly smaller.

Although the species has only been found in bamboo, it is thought that this is not its proper habitat, as repeated searches failed to find new specimens. It seems to share the same microhabitat with "Paracyrba wanlessi", which preys on aquatic animals in the hollow interior of decaying bamboo internodes, for example of "Gigantochloa scortechinii".

Name

The genus name is derived from Indian "bambu", referring to the habitat of the species. The prefix "spar" denotes that the genus is in the subfamily Spartaeinae. The species name refers to the type locality, the Ulu Gombak Field Studies Centre of the University of Malaya.

Footnotes

References

* (2006): A new genus and species of jumping spiders (Araneae:Salticidae:Spartaeinae) from Malaysia. "The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology" 54(2): 241-244. [http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/54/54rbz241-244.pdf PDF]
* (2007): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.0. "American Museum of Natural History".