''Wallaba'' is a

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of Guyanese

jumping spiders Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. As of 2019, this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders at 13% of all species. Jumping spi ...

containing the single species, ''Wallaba metallica''. It was first described by

Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão (July 17, 1886 – December 14, 1948) was a Brazilian zoologist who is considered the founder of Arachnology in South America, publishing 198 papers on the taxonomy of Arachnida. He was also involved with educ ...

in 1940, and is found in

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. It was synonymized with '' Sidusa'' in 2015, but was revalidated by

Jerzy Prószyński Jerzy Prószyński (born 1935 in Warsaw) is a Polish arachnologist specializing in systematics of jumping spiders (family Salticidae). He is a graduate of the University of Warsaw, a long-term employee of the Siedlce University of Natural Scienc ...

in 2017. Prószyński placed ''Wallaba'' in his informal group "euophryines". When synonymized with ''Sidusa'', it was placed in the large tribe Euophryini, part of the

Salticoida Salticoida is an unranked clade of the jumping spider family Salticidae. It is the larger and more widespread of the two subdivisions of the "typical" jumping spiders (subfamily Salticinae), occurring effectively world-wide. Its sister clade is ...

clade of the subfamily

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's 2015 classification of the family Salticidae.

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Painting of ''Sidusa'' sp. or possibly ''Maeota'' sp.

Monotypic Salticidae genera Salticidae Spiders of Central America Spiders of Mexico Spiders of South America Taxa named by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão {{Jumping-spider-stub