Allococalodes

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Allococalodes
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Male Allococalodes madidus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Spartaeinae
Genus: Allococalodes
Wanless, 1982 [1]
Type species
A. alticeps
Wanless, 1982
Species

Allococalodes is a genus of Papuan jumping spiders that was first described by F. R. Wanless in 1982. [2] As of June 2019 it contains only three species, found only in Papua New Guinea: A. alticeps , A. cornutus , and A. madidus . [1] The name is a combination of Ancient Greek ἄλλος ("allo"), meaning "other", and the genus Cocalodes .

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References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Allococalodes Wanless, 1982". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. Wanless, F. R. (1982). "A revision of the spider genus Cocalodes with a description of a new related genus (Araneae: Salticidae)". Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History. 42: 263–298.