Wallaba

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Speciesbox

| taxon = Wallaba metallica

| authority = (Mello-Leitão, 1940)

| parent_authority = Mello-Leitão, 1940

| display_parents = 2

}}

Wallaba is a monotypic genus of Guyanese jumping spiders containing the single species, Wallaba metallica. It was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1940,{{cite journal| last=Mello-Leitão| first=C. F. de| year=1940| title=Spiders of the Guiana forest collected by O. W. Richards| journal=Arquivos de Zoologia do Estado de Sao Paulo| pages=175–197| volume=2| author-link=Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão}} and is found in Guyana.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Wallaba Mello-Leitão, 1940| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-09-29| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3049| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}} It was synonymized with Sidusa in 2015,{{cite journal| last1=Zhang| first1=J. X.| last2=Maddison| first2=W. P.| year=2015| title=Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny| journal=Zootaxa| volume=3938| issue=1| page=19| author-link2=Wayne Maddison| doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1| pmid=25947489}} but was revalidated by Jerzy Prószyński in 2017.{{cite journal| last=Prószyński| first=J.| year=2017| title=Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae)| journal=Ecologica Montenegrina| volume=12| page=77| doi=10.37828/em.2017.12.1| author-link=Jerzy Prószyński| doi-access=free}}

Prószyński placed Wallaba in his informal group "euophryines". When synonymized with Sidusa, it was placed in the large tribe Euophryini, part of the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae in Maddison's 2015 classification of the family Salticidae.