Zygoballus maculatus

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Zygoballus maculatus
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Female holotype
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Zygoballus
Species:
Z. maculatus
Binomial name
Zygoballus maculatus
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Epigyne of Zygoballus maculatus holotype

Zygoballus maculatus is a species of jumping spider which occurs in Guatemala. [1] It is known only from a single female specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London. The species was first described in 1901 by the English arachnologist Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge: [2]

Zygoballus maculatus, sp. n.
Type, female, in coll. Godman and Salvin. Total length 3 millim.
Hab. Guatemala (Sarg).
This species is black, with a few white dorsal and marginal spots on the abdomen, and the legs i. brown, and ii., iii., and iv. yellow, annulated with black. It is probably recognizable by the form of the vulva only, for the coloration in these spiders is very variable, the general pattern being common to many of them.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Taxon details Zygoballus maculatus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2018-11-13.
  2. Pickard-Cambridge, Frederick Octavius (1901). Arachnida - Volume II: Araneidea and Opiliones. In Biologia Centrali-Americana . London: Dulau & Co. p. 292.