Martella (spider)

Martella is a genus of ant mimicking jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1892.[2]

Martella
Adult male Martella from Belize
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Martella
Peckham & Peckham, 1892[1]
Type species
M. pottsi
Peckham & Peckham, 1892
Species

12, see text

Species

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

  • Martella amapa Galiano, 1996Brazil
  • Martella bicavata (Chickering, 1946)Panama
  • Martella camba (Galiano, 1969)Argentina
  • Martella furva (Chickering, 1946) – Panama
  • Martella gandu Galiano, 1996 – Brazil
  • Martella goianensis Galiano, 1969 – Brazil
  • Martella lineatipes F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 – Mexico to Costa Rica
  • Martella maria Peckham & Peckham, 1892 – Brazil
  • Martella mutillaeformis (Taczanowski, 1878)Peru
  • Martella pasteuri Galiano, 1996 – Brazil
  • Martella pottsi Peckham & Peckham, 1892 (type) – Guatemala to Brazil
  • Martella utingae (Galiano, 1967) – Brazil

References

  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Martella Peckham & Peckham, 1892". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
  2. Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1892). "Ant-like spiders of the family Attidae". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 2 (1): 1–84.


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