Lamottella | |
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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".