''Lechia'' is a small
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
of Asian
jumping spider
Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. As of 2019, this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders at 13% of all species. Jumping spi ...
s first described by
Marek Michal Zabka
Marek is the West Slavic (Czech, Polish and Slovak) masculine equivalent of Marcus, Marc or Mark. The name may refer to:
* Marek (given name)
* Marek (surname)
* Marek, the pseudonym of Bulgarian communist Stanke Dimitrov (1889–1944)
* The t ...
in 1985.
it contains only two species: ''
L. minuta'' and ''
L. squamata''.
See also
* ''
Laufeia
''Laufeia'' is a spider genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae, with a mainly Asian distribution, where they are found on tree trunks and branches or among leaf litter.
Description
''Laufeia'' species are mostly small, hairy, brownis ...
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List of Salticidae genera
The genera of the family Salticidae listed here are those that are extant and accepted by the World Spider Catalog . Assignment to subfamilies and clades is based on Maddison (2015), except where otherwise shown. Unless sources indicate otherwise, ...
References
Further reading
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Salticidae genera
Spiders of Asia
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