Ligurra latidens
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| Ligurra latidens | |
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| female from Singapore | |
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| male from Indonesia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Ligurra |
| Species: | L. latidens |
| Binomial name | |
| Ligurra latidens (Doleschall, 1859) | |
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Ligurra latidens is a species of jumping spider in the family Salticidae.[1] It is distributed from Malaysia to Indonesia.[1]
The specific name latidens is derived from Latin latus meaning "wide" and dens meaning "tooth", likely referring to morphological features of the spider's chelicerae.
Taxonomy
L. latidens was originally described by Carl Ludwig Doleschall in 1859 as Salticus latidens based on specimens from Java.[2] The species was later transferred to the genus Homalattus by Tamerlan Thorell in 1892, who provided the first description of the male.[3] In 1903, Eugène Simon transferred the species to its current genus Ligurra and synonymized Simaetha severa Peckham & Peckham, 1901 with this species.[4]