Paracyrba wanlessi (lat.) - a species of spiders from the family of horse spiders . The only species of the genus Paracyrba .
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| Paracyrba wanlessi ( Zabka & Kovac , 1996) |
Content
- 1 Description
- 2 Distribution
- 3 Classification
- 4 notes
- 5 Links
Description
Females have a size of up to 9 mm, males - 7-8 mm. They hunt mosquito larvae that live in water-filled internodes of bamboo. [1] [2]
Distribution
Southeast Asia : Malaysia .
Classification
The species is named after the arachnologist Fred R. Wanless , who made a great contribution to the study of horse spiders.
Notes
- ↑ Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John. An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. - Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Nature Society, 2000.
- ↑ Zhang, JX; Woon, JRW & Li, D. A new genus and species of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Spartaeinae) from Malaysia (Eng.) // The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. - 2006. - Vol. 54 , no. 2 . - P. 241-244 .
Links
- Jerzy Proszynski. Paracyrba wanlessi (English) . salticidae.org (2000 (1999)). Date of treatment March 12, 2011. Archived on April 26, 2012.
- Platnick, Norman I. The world spider catalog, version 11.5. (eng.) . American Museum of Natural History. (2011). Date of treatment March 12, 2011. Archived on April 26, 2012.