Popcornella

Popcornella is a genus of Caribbean jumping spiders that was first described by J. X. Zhang & Wayne Paul Maddison in 2012.[2]

Popcornella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Popcornella
Zhang & Maddison, 2012[1]
Type species
P. spiniformis
Zhang & Maddison, 2012
Species

4, see text

Species

As of August 2019 it contains four species, found only in Puerto Rico and on Hispaniola:[1]

  • Popcornella furcata Zhang & Maddison, 2012Hispaniola
  • Popcornella nigromaculata Zhang & Maddison, 2012Puerto Rico
  • Popcornella spiniformis Zhang & Maddison, 2012 (type) – Hispaniola
  • Popcornella yunque Zhang & Maddison, 2012 – Puerto Rico

References

  1. "Gen. Popcornella Zhang & Maddison, 2012". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  2. Zhang, J. X.; Maddison, W. P. (2012). "New euophryine jumping spiders from the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae)". Zootaxa. 3476: 1–54.


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