Maileus

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Maileus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Maileus
Peckham & Peckham, 1907 [1]
Species:
M. fuscus
Binomial name
Maileus fuscus
Peckham & Peckham, 1907

Maileus is a monotypic genus of jumping spiders containing the single species, Maileus fuscus. It was first described by G. Peckham & Elizabeth Peckham in 1907, [2] and is only found on Borneo. [1] It is closely related to the genus Microhasarius . [2]

M. fuscus is known only from a single female, which is about 6 millimetres (0.24 in) long. Although no published drawings exist, Zabka has drawn the genitalia, and Proszynski has drawn the genitalia of both sexes of what is probably a different species of Maileus. [3] No study has been published on the genus since its first description. [1]

Name

The species name is derived from Latin fuscus "dusky, brown".

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gen. Maileus Peckham & Peckham, 1907". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-19.
  2. 1 2 Peckham, G.; Peckham, E. G. (1907). "The Attidae of Borneo". Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. 15: 603–653.
  3. Murphy, Frances; Murphy, John (2000). "An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia". Malaysian Nature Society. Kuala Lumpur: 272.