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Lakarobius is a spider genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae. Its only species, Lakarobius alboniger, is endemic to Fiji.[1]
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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: | Lakarobius Berry, Beatty & Prószynski, 1998 |
| Species: | L. alboniger
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| Binomial name | |
| Lakarobius alboniger Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998[1]
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Name
editLakarobius signifies living in trees, from Greek lakara, a kind of tree, and bios, life. The epitheton alboniger means "white-black", because of the spider's black and white dorsal pattern.
References
edit- ^ a b "Salticidae". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
- Berry J.W.; Beatty, J.A. & Proszynski J. (1998): Salticidae of the Pacific Islands. III. Distribution of Seven Genera, with Description of Nineteen New Species and Two New Genera. Journal of Arachnology 26(2): 149-189. PDF
- Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
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