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Genus Messua

Messua limbata (Banks) - Messua limbata - female Iridescent Salticid - Messua limbata Iridescent Salticid with Enlarged Palps and White Markings - Messua limbata Messua limbata Golden jumping spider - Messua limbata Undetermined jumping spider - Messua limbata - male Messua limbata - Messua limbata - male Messua limbata
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynae)
Family Salticidae (Jumping Spiders)
Genus Messua
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
removed from the synonymy of Zygoballus by Maddison (1996)
Numbers
a single species in our area, 10 spp. total(1)
Range
US to Panama(1)
Works Cited
1.The World Spider Catalog by Norman I. Platnick
Contributed by Harsi S. Parker on 19 July, 2010 - 2:10pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 29 January, 2011 - 11:18am

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