''Cucudeta'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
Papuan jumping spiders
Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. , this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiderscomprising 13% of spider species. Jumping s ...
that was first described by
Wayne Paul Maddison in 2009.
it contains only three species, found only in
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...
: ''
C. gahavisuka'', ''
C. uzet'', and ''
C. zabkai''.
References
External links
* Videos of walking
Cucudeta uzet'
Spiders of New Guinea
Salticidae
Salticidae genera
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