Wallaba | |
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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: |
Wallaba Mello-Leitão, 1940 [1] |
Species: | W. metallica
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Binomial name | |
Wallaba metallica (
Mello-Leitão, 1940)
[1]
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Wallaba is a monotypic genus of Guyanese jumping spiders containing the single species, Wallaba metallica. It was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1940, [2] and is found in Guyana. [1] It was synonymized with Sidusa in 2015, [3] but was revalidated by Jerzy Prószyński in 2017. [4]
Prószyński placed Wallaba in his informal group "euophryines". [4] When synonymized with Sidusa, it was placed in the large tribe Euophryini, part of the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae in Maddison's 2015 classification of the family Salticidae. [5]