''Pristobaeus namosi'' is a
jumping spider species in the genus ''
Pristobaeus
''Pristobaeus'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.
Species
it contains fifteen species, found only in Oceania and Asia:
*'' Pristobaeus albofasciatus'' (Peckham & Peckham, 1907) – Borneo
*' ...
''. It was first identified in 1996 in
Fiji
Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...
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The species was initially placed in the genus ''Palpelius'' but was renamed ''Pristobaeus namosi'' when ''Palpelius'' was accepted as the junior synonym for ''Pristobaeus'' in 2015.
References
Spiders of Fiji
Salticidae
Spiders described in 1996
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