Anelosimus terraincognita
| Anelosimus terraincognita | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Theridiidae |
| Genus: | Anelosimus |
| Species: | A. terraincognita |
| Binomial name | |
| Anelosimus terraincognita I. Agnarsson, 2012 | |
Anelosimus terraincognita is a species of spider discovered in the collection of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, with no associated information regarding its collector or the location of discovery. Males possess a corkscrew-shaped embolus, a characteristic unique to Australasian species within the genus Anelosimus. This species is known only from the holotype specimen, which has a total length of 2.2 millimetres (0.087 in). It is named after the cartographic Latin phrase terra incognita, meaning unknown land.[1]
References
- ^ Agnarsson, Ingi (2012). "Systematics of new subsocial and solitary Australasian Anelosimus species (Araneae: Theridiidae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 26: 1–16. doi:10.1071/is11039.