Lamottella

Lamottella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Rollard & Wesołowska, 2002
Genus: Lamottella
Rollard & Wesołowska, 2002
Type species
Lamottella longipes
Diversity
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.

Species

As of October 2025, this genus includes three species:

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Gen. Lamottella Rollard & Wesolowska, 2002", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, 2025, retrieved 2025-10-22
  2. ↑ 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