Wallaba

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Speciesbox | taxon = Wallaba metallica | authority = (Mello-Leitão, 1940)<ref name=NMBE /> | parent_authority = Mello-Leitão, 1940<ref name=NMBE /> | display_parents = 2 }} '''''Wallaba''''' is a monotypic genus of Guyanese jumping spiders containing the single species, '''''Wallaba metallica'''''. It was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1940,<ref name=Mell1940>{{cite journal| last=Mello-Leitão| first=C. F. de| year=1940| title=Spiders of the Guiana forest collected by O. W. Richards| journal=Arquivos de Zoologia do Estado de Sao Paulo| pages=175–197| volume=2| author-link=Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão}}</ref> and is found in Guyana.<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Wallaba Mello-Leitão, 1940| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-09-29| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3049| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}</ref> It was synonymized with ''Sidusa'' in 2015,<ref name=Zhan2015>{{cite journal| last1=Zhang| first1=J. X.| last2=Maddison| first2=W. P.| year=2015| title=Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny| journal=Zootaxa| volume=3938| issue=1| page=19| author-link2=Wayne Maddison| doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1| pmid=25947489}}</ref> but was revalidated by Jerzy Prószyński in 2017.<ref name=Pros2017>{{cite journal| last=Prószyński| first=J.| year=2017| title=Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae)| journal=Ecologica Montenegrina| volume=12| page=77| doi=10.37828/em.2017.12.1| author-link=Jerzy Prószyński| doi-access=free}}</ref>

Prószyński placed ''Wallaba'' in his informal group "euophryines".<ref name=Pros2017/> When synonymized with ''Sidusa'', it was placed in the large tribe Euophryini, part of the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae in Maddison's 2015 classification of the family Salticidae.<ref name=Madd15/>

==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=Madd15>{{Citation |mode=cs1 |last1=Maddison |first1=Wayne P. |title=A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) |journal=Journal of Arachnology |date=2015 |volume=43 |issue=3 |pages=231–292 |doi=10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292|s2cid=85680279 }}</ref> }}

==External links== * [http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/sidusa/sp-olson.htm Painting of ''Sidusa'' sp. or possibly ''Maeota'' sp.] * [http://www.miiz.waw.pl/salticid/diagnost/sidusa/recon-gb.htm Picture of ''S. recondita'']

Category:Monotypic Salticidae genera Category:Salticidae Category:Spiders of Central America Category:Spiders of Mexico Category:Spiders of South America Category:Taxa named by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão