{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Salticidae - Flickr - gailhampshire.jpg | image_caption = Possibly ''Canama hinnulea'' | taxon = Canama | authority = Simon, 1903 | type_species = ''Salticus forceps'' | type_species_authority = Doleschall, 1859 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text }}
'''''Canama''''' is a genus of spiders in the jumping spider family, Salticidae. Its five described species occur from Borneo to Queensland.
This genus is very similar to ''Bathippus''.<ref name=murphy283>Murphy & Murphy 2000: 283</ref>
==Description== Females are up to {{convert|8|mm|in|frac=3|abbr=on}} long, males up to {{convert|10|mm|in|frac=8|abbr=on}}. The longish abdomen is clothed in white hairs with red streaks and bands. Males have very large, long chelicerae which diverge and project forwards. The long, spiny legs are dark with pale tarsi and metatarsi.<ref name=murphy283/>
==Species== * ''Canama dorcas'' <small>(Thorell, 1881)</small> – Moluccas * ''Canama forceps'' <small>(Doleschall, 1859)</small> – New Guinea * ''Canama hinnulea'' <small>(Thorell, 1881)</small> – Queensland * ''Canama inquirenda'' <small>Strand, 1911</small> – Kei Islands * ''Canama lacerans'' <small>(Thorell, 1881)</small> – Malaysia * ''Canama rutila'' <small>Peckham & Peckham, 1907</small> – Borneo
==Footnotes== {{Reflist}}
==References== * {{aut|Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John}} (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. ''Malaysian Nature Society'', Kuala Lumpur. * {{aut|Platnick, Norman I.}} (2009): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog], version 9.5. ''American Museum of Natural History''.
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Category:Salticidae genera Category:Spiders of Oceania Category:Salticidae Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon
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