Canama

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Canama
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Possibly Canama hinnulea
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Canama
Simon, 1903
Type species
Salticus forceps
Doleschall, 1859
Species

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Canama is a genus of spiders in the jumping spider family, Salticidae. Its five described species occur from Borneo to Queensland.

Contents

This genus is very similar to Bathippus . [1]

Description

Females are up to 8 mm (13 in) long, males up to 10 mm (38 in). The longish abdomen is clothed in white hairs with red streaks and bands. Males have very large, long chelicerae which diverge and project forwards. The long, spiny legs are dark with pale tarsi and metatarsi. [1]

Species

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Murphy & Murphy 2000: 283

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