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Mantisatta

Mantisatta is a genus of Southeast Asian jumping spiders that was first described by C. A. Warburton in 1900. it contains only two species, found only in the Philippines and Malaysia: M. longicauda and M. trucidans. The name is a combination of "mantis", in reference to its long first legs, and the common salticid suffix -attus.

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Mantisatta is a genus of Southeast Asian jumping spiders that was first described by C. A. Warburton in 1900. it contains only two species, found only in the Philippines and Malaysia: M. longicauda and M. trucidans. The name is a combination of "mantis", in reference to its long first legs, and the common salticid suffix -attus.

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