Ballognatha Explained

Ballognatha is a spider genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae, with the single species B. typica. It occurs in Karakorum.

The species and genus were described based on a single immature and misclassified specimen. It is highly likely that there exists no real species with characters fitting the original description. Genus and species are thus a nomen dubium.^[1]

Name

The genus name is a combination of the related salticid genus Ballus and Ancient Greek gnath- "jaw".

References

• (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.

Further reading

• (1935): Aracnidi dell'Himalaia e del Karakoram, raccolti dalla Missione italiana al Karakoram (1929-VII). Mem. Soc. ent. ital. 13: 161-263.

Notes and References

1. Jerzy Proszynski: Ballognatha typica