| Lamottella | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Lamottella Rollard & Wesołowska, 2002 |
| Species: | L. longipes |
| Binomial name | |
| Lamottella longipes Rollard & Wesołowska, 2002 | |
Lamottella is a spider genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae. Its single described species, Lamotella longipes, is found in Guinea.
Description
The male spider is about 5.5 millimetres (0.22 in) long. The female is not yet known.
Taxonomy
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".
References
- ^ "Gen. Lamottella Rollard & Wesolowska, 2002", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2017-03-18
- ^ Rollard, Ch. & Wesołowska, W. (2002), "Jumping spiders (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae) from the Nimba Mountains in Guinea" (PDF), Zoosystema, 24 (2): 283–307, retrieved 2017-03-18
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Lamottella longipes | |
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