Balmaceda (spider)

Balmaceda is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George Peckham & Elizabeth Peckham in 1894.[2]

Balmaceda
Balmaceda nigrosecta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Balmaceda
Peckham & Peckham, 1894[1]
Type species
B. picta
Peckham & Peckham, 1894
Species

11, see text

Species

As of June 2019 it contains eleven species, found in Central America, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Mexico:[1]

  • Balmaceda abba Edwards & Baert, 2018 – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
  • Balmaceda anulipes Soares, 1942 – Brazil
  • Balmaceda biteniata Mello-Leitão, 1922 – Brazil
  • Balmaceda chickeringi Roewer, 1951 – Panama
  • Balmaceda distans (Banks, 1924) – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
  • Balmaceda minor (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico to El Salvador
  • Balmaceda nigrosecta Mello-Leitão, 1945 – Colombia, Argentina
  • Balmaceda picta Peckham & Peckham, 1894 (type) – Guatemala to Colombia
  • Balmaceda reducta Chickering, 1946 – Panama
  • Balmaceda turneri Chickering, 1946 – Panama
  • Balmaceda vera Mello-Leitão, 1917 – Brazil

References

  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Balmaceda Peckham & Peckham, 1894". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1894). "Spiders of the Marptusa group". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 2: 85–156.


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