| Colopea laeta | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Stenochilidae |
| Genus: | Colopea |
| Species: | C. laeta |
| Binomial name | |
| Colopea laeta (Thorell, 1895) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Colopea laeta is a species of spider belonging to the family Stenochilidae. [1]
The juvenile holotype measures 4.25mm. [2] The male spider, as described by Lehtinen in 1982, measures 4.7mm, and the female measures 7.6mm. [3]
This spider species was first described under the protonym Metronax laetus by Thorell in 1895. In 1974, Platnick and Shadab placed it in synonymy with Colopea pusilla . [4] It was later relieved of synonymy in the genus Colopea by Lehtinen in 1982. [3]
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Zelotes is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by J. Gistel in 1848.
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Micaria is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Niklas Westring in 1851. They are 1.3 to 6.5 millimetres long.
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Gertschosa is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by Norman I. Platnick & M. U. Shadab in 1981.
Sosticus is a genus of ground spiders that was first described by R. V. Chamberlin in 1922.
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