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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2020-01-16
Page range: 500–500
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Kakameganula, a new name for the preoccupied Kakamega Dawidowicz & Wesołowska, 2016 (Araneae: Salticidae)

Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Taxonomy, Wrocław University, Przybyszewskiego 65, PL 51-148 Wrocław, Poland
Araneae Salticidae

Abstract

Dawidowicz & Wesołowska (2016) proposed the jumping spider genus Kakamega for the type species Kakamega holmi Dawidowicz & Wesołowska, 2016, probably endemic to the Kakamega Forest of Kenya, a remnant of the Guineo-Congolian tropical rainforest.

References

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    https://doi.org/10.3161/00034541ANZ2016.66.3.010

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