Pensacola (spider)

Pensacola is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1885.[2]

Pensacola
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Pensacola
Peckham & Peckham, 1885[1]
Type species
P. signata
Peckham & Peckham, 1885
Species

9, see text

Species

As of August 2019 it contains nine species, found in Central America, Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador, Brazil, and Mexico:[1]

  • Pensacola castanea Simon, 1902Brazil
  • Pensacola cyaneochirus Simon, 1902Ecuador
  • Pensacola gaujoni Simon, 1902 – Ecuador
  • Pensacola murina Simon, 1902 – Brazil, Guyana
  • Pensacola ornata Simon, 1902 – Brazil
  • Pensacola poecilocilia Caporiacco, 1955Venezuela
  • Pensacola radians (Peckham & Peckham, 1896)Panama
  • Pensacola signata Peckham & Peckham, 1885 (type) – Guatemala
  • Pensacola sylvestris (Peckham & Peckham, 1896)Mexico, Guatemala

References

  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Pensacola Peckham & Peckham, 1885". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-08.
  2. Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1885). "On some new genera and species of Attidae from the eastern part of Guatamala". Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 1885: 62–86.


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