Colopea laeta is a species of spider belonging to the family Stenochilidae.[1]
| Colopea laeta | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Stenochilidae |
| Genus: | Colopea |
| Species: | C. laeta
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| Binomial name | |
| Colopea laeta (Thorell, 1895)
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Distribution
editDescription
editThe juvenile holotype measures 4.25mm.[2] The male spider, as described by Lehtinen in 1982, measures 4.7mm, and the female measures 7.6mm.[3]
Taxonomy
editThis spider species was first described under the protonym Metronax laetus by Thorell in 1895. In 1974, Platnick and Shadab placed it in synonymy with Colopea pusilla.[4] It was later relieved of synonymy in the genus Colopea by Lehtinen in 1982.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b "Family: Stenochilidae Thorell, 1873". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2023. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2023-04-05.
- ^ Thorell, Tord (1895). Descriptive Catalogue of the Spiders of Burma. London: British Museum.
- ^ a b Lehtinen, P.T. (2013). "Spiders of the Oriental-Australian region. IV. Stenochilidae". Annales Zoologici Fennici. 19 (2): 115–128.
- ^ Platnick, Norman I.; Shadab, Mohammad U. (1974). "A revision of the spider family Stenochilidae (Arachnida, Araneae)". American Museum Novitates. 2556: 1–14.