# Leptathamas

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{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
{{Speciesbox
| taxon=Leptathamas paradoxus
| authority=Balogh, 1980<ref name=NMBE />
}}

'''''Leptathamas''''' is a [spider](/source/spider) [genus](/source/genus_(biology)) of the jumping spider family, [Salticidae](/source/Salticidae), with one described species, which occurs only in [New Guinea](/source/New_Guinea).<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/2739}}</ref>

The genus seems to be closely related to ''[Athamas](/source/Athamas)'' and ''[Bulolia](/source/Bulolia)'', occupying a "midway" position between them.<ref>Szűts 2003</ref>

==Name==
The genus name is a combination of [Ancient Greek](/source/Ancient_Greek) ''lepto'' "slender, fine" and the name of the related genus ''Athamas''.{{citation needed|date=April 2026}}

==Footnotes==
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==References==
* {{aut|Szűts, T.}} (2003): On remarkable jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Papua New Guinea. ''Folia entomologica hungarica'' '''64''': 41-58. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070927032151/http://salticidae.next-it.hu/PDF/szuts2003c_FOLIA.pdf PDF]

==Further reading==
* {{aut|Balogh, P.}} (1980): Studies on the Papuan Attidae (Araneae): ''Leptathamas paradoxus'' gen. et sp. n. ''Folia ent. hung.'' '''41''': 29-31.

==External links==
* [http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/leptath/paradox.htm Diagnostic drawings] of ''L. paradoxus''
* [http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/leptath/par-phsz.htm Photograph] of ''L. paradoxus'' (in vitro?)

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Category:Salticidae
Category:Spiders of New Guinea
Category:Monotypic Salticidae genera

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