Lakarobius
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| parent_authority = Berry, Beatty & Prószynski, 1998
| taxon = Lakarobius alboniger
| authority = Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998
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Lakarobius is a spider genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae. Its only species, Lakarobius alboniger, is endemic to Fiji.{{cite web|title=Salticidae| website=World Spider Catalog| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| accessdate=2017-04-17| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2727}}
Name
Lakarobius signifies living in trees, from Greek lakara, a kind of tree, and bios, life.
The epitheton alboniger means "white-black", because of the spider's black and white dorsal pattern.
References
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- {{aut|Berry J.W.; Beatty, J.A. & Proszynski J.}} (1998): Salticidae of the Pacific Islands. III. Distribution of Seven Genera, with Description of Nineteen New Species and Two New Genera. Journal of Arachnology 26(2): 149-189. [http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v26_n2/JoA_v26_p149.pdf PDF]
- {{aut|Platnick, Norman I.}} (2007): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog], version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
External links
- [http://www.miiz.waw.pl/salticid/diagnost/lakarob/albonig.htm Diagnostic drawings of L. alboniger]
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Category:Monotypic Salticidae genera
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