| Maileus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Genus: | Maileus Peckham & Peckham, 19071 |
| Species: | M. fuscus
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| Binomial name | |
| Maileus fuscus Peckham & Peckham, 1907
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Maileus is a monotypic genus of jumping spiders containing the single species, Maileus fuscus. It was first described by G. Peckham & Elizabeth Peckham in 1907,2 and is only found on Borneo.1 It is closely related to the genus Microhasarius.2
M. fuscus is known only from a single female, which is about 6 millimetres (0.24 in) long. Although no published drawings exist, Zabka has drawn the genitalia, and Proszynski has drawn the genitalia of both sexes of what is probably a different species of Maileus.3 No study has been published on the genus since its first description.1
Name
The species name is derived from Latin fuscus "dusky, brown".
References
References
- "Gen. Maileus Peckham & Peckham, 1907". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
- Peckham, G.; Peckham, E. G. (1907). "The Attidae of Borneo". Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. 15: 603–653.
- Murphy, Frances; Murphy, John (2000). "An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia". Malaysian Nature Society. Kuala Lumpur: 272.