Stenaelurillus lesserti

Stenaelurillus lesserti is a species of jumping spider found in southern India and Sri Lanka.[1] The male has red and blue horizontal stripes on the front of the face while the female is dull. There are two transverse stripes on the prosoma.[2]

  • Male
    Male
  • Female
    Female

Stenaelurillus lesserti
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Stenaelurillus
Species:
S. lesserti
Binomial name
Stenaelurillus lesserti
Reimoser, 1934

References
  1. Caleb, John T. D.; Sanap, Rajesh V. (2016). "Lessert's rainbow spider, Stenaelurillus lesserti Reimoser (Araneae: Salticidae: Aelurillina) from new localities in South India". Acta Arachnologica. 65 (2): 83–87. doi:10.2476/asjaa.65.83. ISSN 0001-5202.
  2. Sebastian, Pothalil A.; Moothedathu, Pradeep M.; Malamel, Jobi J.; Joseph, Mathew M. (2015-03-26). "Description of new species of Stenaelurillus Simon, 1886 from the Western Ghats of India with the redescription of Stenaelurillus lesserti Reimoser, 1934 and notes on mating plug in the genus (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae)". ZooKeys (491): 63–78. doi:10.3897/zookeys.491.8218. ISSN 1313-2970. PMC 4389184. PMID 25878537.


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