Lamottella
| Lamottella | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae Rollard & Wesołowska, 2002[1] |
| Genus: | Lamottella Rollard & Wesołowska, 2002[1] |
| Type species | |
| Lamottella longipes | |
| Diversity[1] | |
| 3 species | |
Lamottella is a spider genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae. It contains three species.
Taxonomy
The genus is named in honor of Maxime Lamotte, an ecologist and frog specialist who initiated the early expeditions into the Nimba Mountains.[2]
Species
As of October 2025, this genus includes three species:[1]
- Lamottella longipes Rollard & Wesołowska, 2002 – Guinea (type species)
- Lamottella mirabilis Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025 – Guinea
- Lamottella proszynskii Wawer & Wesołowska, 2024 – Ghana
References
- ^ a b c d "Gen. Lamottella Rollard & Wesolowska, 2002", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, 2025, retrieved 2025-10-22
- ^ Rollard, Ch. & Wesołowska, W. (2002), "Jumping spiders (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae) from the Nimba Mountains in Guinea" (PDF), Zoosystema, 24 (2): 283–307, retrieved 2017-03-18