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Genus: Kelawakaju Maddison & Ruiz, 2022 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Kelawakaju sahyadri Vishnudas, Maddison, & Sudhikumar, 2022

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:056459

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Distribution: India

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Holotype: National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore/Bengaluru, Karnataka, India m - (Maddison et al., 2022)
Paratype: National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore/Bengaluru, Karnataka, India 1f - (Maddison et al., 2022)
Paratype: Centre for Animal Taxonomy and Ecology (CATE), Department of Zoology, Christ College, Irinjalakuda, Kerala, India 1m 1f - (Maddison et al., 2022)

Taxonomic References

Kelawakaju sahyadri Vishnudas, Maddison, & Sudhikumar, in Maddison et al., 2022: 98, f. 15, 64-72, 92-88 (Dmf) Original description

References

Maddison, W. P., Ruiz, G. R. S., Ng, P. Y. C., Vishnudas, E. H. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2022). Kelawakaju gen. nov., a new Asian lineage of marpissine jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae, Marpissina). ZooKeys 1130: 79-102. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1130.87730 -- Show included taxa

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Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2022-11-18	New taxonomic reference entry	Maddison et al., 2022
2022-11-18	New species inserted	Maddison et al., 2022