Pellolessertia

Pellolessertia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Pellolessertia
Strand, 1929[1]
Species:
P. castanea
Binomial name
Pellolessertia castanea
(Lessert, 1927)

Pellolessertia is a monotypic genus of African jumping spiders containing the single species, Pellolessertia castanea. It was first described in 1927,[2] and is only found in Africa.[1] Dippenaar-Schoeman & Jocqué gave the distribution range as Zad're to Ethiopia.[3]

The name is a combination of the salticid genus Pellenes, due to its resemblance it and several other genera in the subfamily Pelleninae, and the arachnologist Lessert.[4] It was first discovered in Avakubi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and given the name Avakubia. In 1929, the name was changed to "Pellolessertia" because its previous name was already being used for a gastropod subgenus in Streptaxidae.

  1. ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Pellolessertia Strand, 1929". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-08.
  2. ^ Lessert, R. de (1927). "Araignées du Congo (Premiere partie)". Revue suisse de Zoologie. 34: 442. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.117612.
  3. ^ Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S.; Jocqué, R. (1997). African Spiders: An Identification Manual. pp. 1–392.
  4. ^ Strand, E. (1929). "Zoological and palaeontological nomenclatorical notes". Acta Universitatis Latviensis. 20: 1–29.