Galianora sacha is a species of jumping spider

Jumping spider

The jumping spider family contains more than 500 described genera and about 5,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders with about 13% of all species. Jumping spiders have some of the best vision among invertebrates and use it in courtship, hunting and navigation...

 from Ecuador

Ecuador

Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...

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This species is pale, elongate, long-legged and somewhat flattened. It superficially resembles the genera Itata

Itata

Itata is a spider genus of the Salticidae family .-Species:* Itata completa — Panama* Itata isabellina — Peru* Itata partita Mello-Leitão, 1930 — Brazil...

or Helpis

Helpis

Helpis is a genus of the spider family Salticidae .-Species:* Helpis abnormis Zabka, 2002 * Helpis gracilis Gardzinska, 1996 * Helpis kenilworthi Zabka, 2002...

. The first pair of legs is elongate and probably used for catching prey. Both sexes are pale and yellowish, except for pigmented areas around the eyes, dark speckles on the abdomen and some darker areas on the legs, especially the distal half of the first tibia. The fine hairs that cover the animal are mostly upright and black on the legs, and largely orange or white on the body. Orange hairs cover the pigmented integument around the eyes. Males are 5 mm long, females about 4 mm.

This species was collected from understory trees in lowland rainforest, near a small stream.

Name

The species name is derived from Quechua sacha "tree/forest", referring to its habitat, as well as to the place it was first found (Jatun Sacha

Jatun Sacha

Jatun Sacha is best known as the name of a biological station established in the Ecuadorian Amazon in 1985, the Jatun Sacha Biologial Station...

, Ecuador).