Pellolessertia is a spider

Spider

Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms...

 genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). with only one species, P. castanea, that has been found in Cameroon

Cameroon

Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon , is a country in west Central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the...

, Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a state located in Central Africa. It is the second largest country in Africa by area and the eleventh largest in the world...

 and Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...

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Males are about six millimeters long.

The most similar genus seems to be Monomotapa (Szüts & Scharff, 2005).

Distribution

The species was first found in Avakubi, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a state located in Central Africa. It is the second largest country in Africa by area and the eleventh largest in the world...

, and has been recorded in Cameroon. Dippenaar-Schoeman & Jocqué (1997) give the distribution range as Zad're to Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...

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Name

The genus name is derived in part from the arachnologist Lessert, and also from the salticid genus Pellenes

Pellenes

Pellenes is a spider genus of the Salticidae family .Most species have a special propensity for snail shells and are dark to black with white stripes on the back. Often there are bright red markings. Especially the male Pellenes seriatus and P...

, because it bears resemblance to several genera in the subfamily Pelleninae.

Its original genus name Avakubia was changed in 1929, because that name was preoccupied for a gastropod subgenus (Gulella

Gulella

Gulella is a genus of very small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.Until recently, species which are now in the genus Costigulella were included here.- Distribution :...

 (Avakubia) Pilsbry, 1919, Streptaxidae

Streptaxidae

Streptaxidae is a family of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in theStylommatophora. Six Streptaxidae subfamilies are accepted in the 2005 taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi....

, Stylommatophora

Stylommatophora

Stylommatophora is a taxon of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. This taxon is currently considered to be a clade. It was previously regarded as an infraorder...

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