Amilaps is a monotypic genus of jumping spiders containing the single species, Amilaps mayana. It was first described in 2019 by Wayne Maddison,[1] who originally collected the type specimen in 1983 in Teapa, Mexico. The genus was tentatively placed in the tribe Lapsiini, a division of the subfamily Spartaeinae.[2]
| Amilaps | |
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| Amilaps mayana | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Genus: | Amilaps Maddison, 2019[1] |
| Species: | A. mayana
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| Binomial name | |
| Amilaps mayana | |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c "Gen. Amilaps Maddison, 2019". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
- ^ Maddison, W. P. (2019). "A new lapsiine jumping spider from North America, with a review of Simon's Lapsias species (Araneae, Salticidae, Spartaeinae)". ZooKeys (891): 17–29. Bibcode:2019ZooK..891...17M. doi:10.3897/zookeys.891.38563. PMC 6882923. PMID 31802970.
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