Amilaps

{{Short description| Genus of jumping spiders}}

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| image = Amilaps mayana Zookeys.891.38563 Fig 10.jpg

| image_caption = Amilaps mayana

| taxon = Amilaps mayana

| authority = Maddison, 2019

| parent_authority = Maddison, 2019

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Amilaps is a monotypic genus of jumping spiders containing the single species, Amilaps mayana. It was first described in 2019 by Wayne Maddison, who originally collected the type specimen in 1983 in Teapa, Mexico. The genus was tentatively placed in the tribe Lapsiini, a division of the subfamily Spartaeinae.

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References

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{{cite journal| title=Gen. Amilaps Maddison, 2019| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2022-03-03| year=2022| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/5758| doi=10.24436/2}}

{{cite journal| author-last=Maddison| author-first=W. P.| year=2019| journal=ZooKeys| title=A new lapsiine jumping spider from North America, with a review of Simon's Lapsias species (Araneae, Salticidae, Spartaeinae)| issue=891| pages=17–29| pmid=31802970| pmc=6882923| doi=10.3897/zookeys.891.38563| url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/15050| doi-access=free| bibcode=2019ZooK..891...17M}}

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Category:Monotypic Salticidae genera

Category:Spiders of Mexico

Category:Spiders of Central America

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