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
- 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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