Lakarobius

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{More citations needed|find=resources|date=June 2024}} {{Speciesbox | parent_authority = Berry, Beatty & Prószynski, 1998 | taxon = Lakarobius alboniger | authority = Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998<ref name=NMBE /> }}

'''''Lakarobius''''' is a spider genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae. Its only species, '''''Lakarobius alboniger''''', is endemic to Fiji.<ref name=NMBE>{{cite web|title=Salticidae| website=World Spider Catalog| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| accessdate=2017-04-17| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2727}}</ref>

==Name== ''Lakarobius'' signifies living in trees, from Greek ''lakara'', a kind of tree, and ''bios'', life. The epitheton ''alboniger'' means "white-black", because of the spider's black and white dorsal pattern.

==References== {{Reflist}} * {{aut|Berry J.W.; Beatty, J.A. & Proszynski J.}} (1998): Salticidae of the Pacific Islands. III. Distribution of Seven Genera, with Description of Nineteen New Species and Two New Genera. ''Journal of Arachnology'' '''26'''(2): 149-189. [http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v26_n2/JoA_v26_p149.pdf PDF] * {{aut|Platnick, Norman I.}} (2007): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog], version 8.0. ''American Museum of Natural History''.

==External links== *[http://www.miiz.waw.pl/salticid/diagnost/lakarob/albonig.htm Diagnostic drawings of ''L. alboniger'']

Category:Salticidae Category:Spiders of Fiji Category:Monotypic Salticidae genera Category:Taxa named by Joseph Beatty Category:Taxa named by James William Berry