# Wallaba

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{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
{{Speciesbox
| taxon = Wallaba metallica
| authority = ([Mello-Leitão](/source/C%C3%A2ndido_Firmino_de_Mello-Leit%C3%A3o), 1940)<ref name=NMBE />
| parent_authority = Mello-Leitão, 1940<ref name=NMBE />
| display_parents = 2
}}
'''''Wallaba''''' is a [monotypic](/source/monotypic_taxon) [genus](/source/genus) of Guyanese [jumping spiders](/source/Salticidae) containing the single species, '''''Wallaba metallica'''''. It was first described by [Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão](/source/C%C3%A2ndido_Firmino_de_Mello-Leit%C3%A3o) 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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Jerzy_Pr%C3%B3szy%C5%84ski) 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](/source/Salticoida) clade of the subfamily [Salticinae](/source/Salticinae) in [Maddison](/source/Wayne_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'']

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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

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