Xuriella

Xuriella is a small genus of spiders in the jumping spider family, Salticidae.

Xuriella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Xuriella
Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000
Type species
Xuriella prima
Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000
Species

See text.

The female of Heliophanus pygmaeus was incorrectly associated with the male of X. prima. Both species are beetle-like in appearance. Beetle mimicry is rather common in spiders (including salticids), and has probably developed independently several times.[1]

Species

Notes

  1. Wesolowska 2004

References

  • Wesolowska, Wanda (2004): A redescription of Heliophanus pygmaeus Wesolowska et Russel-Smith, 2000, a small beetle-like salticid from Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). Genus 15(2): 275-280. PDF
  • Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.


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