Wanlessia sedgwicki is a species of jumping spider that is endemic to northwestern Borneo.[1]
| Wanlessia sedgwicki | |
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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 |
| Genus: | Wanlessia |
| Species: | W. sedgwicki
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| Binomial name | |
| Wanlessia sedgwicki Wijesinghe, 1992
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Males have a body length of 3.2 mm. The carapace is dark yellowish brown.[2]
Name
editThe species name honors Walter Sedgwick, the collector of the holotype.
Footnotes
editReferences
edit- Wijesinghe, D.P. (1992): A new genus of jumping spider from Borneo with notes on the Spartaeine palp (Araneae: Salticidae). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 40: 9-19. PDF
- Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
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