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Pellolessertia

Pellolessertia is a genus of jumping spiders found in Cameroon, Congo and Ethiopia. As of 2017, it contains only one species, Pellolessertia castanea. The species was first found in Avakubi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and its original genus name was Avakubia. It was changed in 1929 because that name was preoccupied for a gastropod subgenus (Gulella (Avakubia) Pilsbry, 1919, Streptaxidae, Stylommatophora). Dippenaar-Schoeman & Jocqué (1997) give the distribution range as Zad're to Ethiopia.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 420527.