''Wanlessia sedgwicki'' is a species of jumping spider that is

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to northwestern

Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and eas ...

.World Spider Catalog Males have a body length of 3.2 mm. The

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is dark yellowish brown.Wijesinghe 1992

Name

The species name honors Walter Sedgwick, the collector of the

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Footnotes

References

* (1992): A new genus of jumping spider from Borneo with notes on the Spartaeine palp (Araneae: Salticidae). ''The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology'' 40: 9-19
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* (2007)

version 8.0. ''American Museum of Natural History''. Salticidae Spiders described in 1992 Invertebrates of Borneo Spiders of Asia {{salticidae-stub