Stenaelurillus zambiensis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Arachnida
- Order
- Araneae
- Family
- Salticidae
- Genus
- Stenaelurillus
- Species
- Stenaelurillus zambiensis
- Scientific Name
- Stenaelurillus zambiensis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Stenaelurillus zambiensis
Stenaelurillus zambiensis is a species of jumping spider that lives in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. A member of the genus Stenaelurillus, it was first described in 2014 by Wanda Wesołowska. The spider is small, the male being smaller than the female, with a forward section, or cephalothorax, that is between 2.6 and 3.2 mm (0.10 and 0.13 in) in length and, behind that, an abdomen measuring between 2.6 and 3.0 mm (0.10 and 0.12 in) in length. The male has a distinctive metallic sheen on its abdomen and eye field. The upper side of the male's cephalothorax is marked with two white streaks while the female has white stripes on the top and side of its cephalothorax. It is distinguished from other members of the genus by the two depressions in the female epigyne, external visible part of its copulatory organs, and the male's straight embolus and the hooked end to the projection, or apophysis, on its palpal tibia.
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Sibling Taxa
- Stenaelurillus abramovi
- Stenaelurillus albopunctatus
- Stenaelurillus albus
- Stenaelurillus arambagensis
- Stenaelurillus bandama
- Stenaelurillus belihuloya
- Stenaelurillus brandbergensis
- Stenaelurillus darwini
- Stenaelurillus furcatus
- Stenaelurillus fuscatus
- Stenaelurillus fuscus
- Stenaelurillus gabrieli
- Stenaelurillus glaber
- Stenaelurillus guttatus
- Stenaelurillus guttiger
- Stenaelurillus hirsutus
- Stenaelurillus ignobilis
- Stenaelurillus ilesai
- Stenaelurillus indicus
- Stenaelurillus iubatus
- Stenaelurillus jagannathae
- Stenaelurillus jocquei
- Stenaelurillus kavango
- Stenaelurillus kronestedti
- Stenaelurillus latibulbis
- Stenaelurillus lesserti
- Stenaelurillus leucogrammus
- Stenaelurillus mardanicus
- Stenaelurillus marusiki
- Stenaelurillus megamalai
- Stenaelurillus metallicus
- Stenaelurillus minutus
- Stenaelurillus mirabilis
- Stenaelurillus modestus
- Stenaelurillus nigricaudus
- Stenaelurillus pecten
- Stenaelurillus pilosus
- Stenaelurillus pseudoguttatus
- Stenaelurillus sarojinae
- Stenaelurillus senegalensis
- Stenaelurillus shwetamukhi
- Stenaelurillus siyamae
- Stenaelurillus specularis
- Stenaelurillus strandi
- Stenaelurillus striolatus
- Stenaelurillus sudanicus
- Stenaelurillus tamravarni
- Stenaelurillus termitophagus
- Stenaelurillus tettu
- Stenaelurillus triguttatus
- Stenaelurillus uniguttatus
- Stenaelurillus vyaghri
- Stenaelurillus wandae
- Stenaelurillus zambiensis