''Dolomedes elegans'' Taczanowski, 1874 is a spider species in the family
Pisauridae
Nursery web spiders (Pisauridae) is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1890. They resemble wolf spiders (Lycosidae) except for several key differences. Wolf spiders have two very prominent eyes in addition to the o ...
, found in
French Guiana
French Guiana ( or ; french: link=no, Guyane ; gcr, label=French Guianese Creole, Lagwiyann ) is an overseas department/region and single territorial collectivity of France on the northern Atlantic coast of South America in the Guianas. ...
.
(Note, Another species described two years after the original, initially named''Dolomedes elegans''
L. Koch, 1876, and later named Nilus kochi is now considered as ''
Mangromedes kochi'', and is found in Queensland, Australia.)
See also
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List of Pisauridae species
This article lists all described species of the spider family Pisauridae accepted by the World Spider Catalog :
A ''Afropisaura''
'' Afropisaura'' Blandin, 1976
* '' A. ducis'' (Strand, 1913) — West, Central, East Africa
* '' A. rothiformis'' ...
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elegans
Spiders described in 1874
Spiders of South America
Arthropods of South America
Fauna of French Guiana
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