Xuriella is a small genus of spiders in the jumping spider family, Salticidae.
| Xuriella | |
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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: | Xuriella Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 |
| Type species | |
| Xuriella prima Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000
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| Species | |
The female of Heliophanus pygmaeus was incorrectly associated with the male of X. prima. Both species are beetle-like in appearance. Beetle mimicry is rather common in spiders (including salticids), and has probably developed independently several times.[1]
Species
edit- Xuriella marmorea Wesolowska & van Harten, 2007 — Yemen
- Xuriella prima Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 — Tanzania
Notes
edit- ^ Wesolowska 2004
References
edit- Wesolowska, Wanda (2004): A redescription of Heliophanus pygmaeus Wesolowska et Russel-Smith, 2000, a small beetle-like salticid from Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). Genus 15(2): 275-280. PDF
- Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.
External links
edit- Salticidae.org: Photographs of X. marmorea
- Salticidae.org: Diagnostic drawings of X. prima
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