Eburneana magna
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| Eburneana magna | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Genus: | Eburneana |
| Species: | E. magna |
| Binomial name | |
| Eburneana magna Wesołowska & Szűts, 2001 | |
Eburneana magna is a species of jumping spider in the genus Eburneana that mimics ants. It is a large spider, as is emphasised by the species name, the Latin for big, with a body that can be up to 12 millimetres (0.47 in) in length, although only the female has been identified and in other species in the genus the male is larger than the female. The species has been identified from a holotype found in Ivory Coast.
Eburneana magna is a species of jumping spider that was first named by Wanda Wesołowska and Tamás Szűts in 2001.[1] It is one of over 500 species identified by Wesołowska.[2] It is the type species of the genus Eburneana, one of many of spiders that mimics ants. The genus is named for Litus Eburneum, the Latin name for Ivory Coast, where the species was first identified.[3] The species name is the Latin word for big, in reference to the relatively large size of the spider.[4] In 2015, the genus was added to the subclade Saltafresia in the clade Salticoida based on the analysis of 8 genes.[5] In 2017, it was added to the supergroup Hylloida by Jerzy Prószyński.[6]