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{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Speciesbox
| taxon = Maileus fuscus
| authority = Peckham & Peckham, 1907
| parent_authority = Peckham & Peckham, 1907<ref name=NMBE />
}}
'''''Maileus''''' is a [[monotypic taxon|monotypic]] [[genus]] of  [[Salticidae|jumping spiders]] containing the single species, '''''Maileus fuscus'''''. It was first described by G. Peckham & [[George and Elizabeth Peckham|Elizabeth Peckham]] in 1907,<ref name=Peck1907>{{cite journal| last1=Peckham| first1=G.| last2=Peckham| first2=E. G.| year=1907| title=The Attidae of Borneo| journal=Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters| pages=603–653| volume=15| author-link2=George_and_Elizabeth_Peckham}}</ref> and is only found on [[Borneo]].<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Maileus Peckham & Peckham, 1907| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-07-19| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2762| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> It is closely related to the genus ''[[Microhasarius]]''.<ref name=Peck1907 />
''M. fuscus'' is known only from a single female, which is about {{convert|6|mm}} long. Although no published drawings exist, Zabka has drawn the genitalia, and Proszynski has drawn the genitalia of both sexes of what is probably a different species of ''Maileus''.<ref>{{cite journal| last1=Murphy| first1=Frances| last2=Murphy| first2=John| year=2000| title=An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia| journal=Malaysian Nature Society| publisher=Kuala Lumpur| page=272}}</ref> No study has been published on the genus since its first description.<ref name=NMBE />
==Name==
The species name is derived from [[Latin]] ''fuscus'' "dusky, brown".
==References==
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[[Category:Monotypic Salticidae genera]]
[[Category:Salticidae]]
[[Category:Spiders of Asia]]
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