Ballognatha

Ballognatha is a spider genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae, with the single species B. typica. It occurs in Karakorum.

Ballognatha
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Ballognatha
Caporiacco, 1935, nomen dubium
Species:
B. typica
Binomial name
Ballognatha typica
Caporiacco, 1935, nomen dubium

The species and genus were described based on a single immature and misclassified specimen. It is highly likely that there exists no real species with characters fitting the original description. Genus and species are thus a nomen dubium.[1]

Name

The genus name is a combination of the related salticid genus Ballus and Ancient Greek gnath- "jaw".

Footnotes

  1. Jerzy Proszynski: Ballognatha typica

References

  • Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.

Further reading

  • Caporiacco, L. di (1935): Aracnidi dell'Himalaia e del Karakoram, raccolti dalla Missione italiana al Karakoram (1929-VII). Mem. Soc. ent. ital. 13: 161-263.


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