Uroballus peckhami

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Uroballus peckhami
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Uroballus
Species:
U. peckhami
Binomial name
Uroballus peckhami
Żabka, 1985

Uroballus peckhami is a spider species of the jumping spider family, Salticidae that is known only from northern Vietnam (Hanoi). [1]

Contents

This species is known only from a single female. [2]

Description

The general body form is like those of other species in the genus. The carapace is dark orange. On the blackish eye area there are two dark spots. There are many white hairs on the sides. The abdomen is light grey with a dark grey spine-like pattern followed by chevrons. The legs are yellow with grey rings near the joints. The long spinnerets are also grey. [2]

Name

The species is named after arachnologists George and Elizabeth Peckham.

Footnotes

  1. Logunov, D. V. (2014). Description of a new species of Uroballus Simon, 1902 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Malaysia, with the longest spinnerets of any known jumping spider. Zootaxa 3894(1): 183-187
  2. 1 2 Murphy & Murphy 2000: 289

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