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Lamottella

Lamottella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Lamottella
Rollard & Wesołowska, 2002
Species: L. longipes
Binomial name
Lamottella longipes
Rollard & Wesołowska, 2002

Lamottella is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Its single described species, Lamotella longipes, is found in Guinea.

The male spider is about 5.5 millimetres (0.22 in) long. The female is not yet known.

The genus is named in honor of Maxime Lamotte, an ecologist and frog specialist who initiated the early expeditions into the Nimba Mountains. The specific name longipes means "long-legged".



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