Tacuna

Tacuna is a genus of South American jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1901.[2]

Tacuna
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Tacuna
Peckham & Peckham, 1901[1]
Type species
T. delecta
Peckham & Peckham, 1901
Species

4, see text

Species

As of August 2019 it contains four species, found only in Argentina and Brazil:[1]

  • Tacuna delecta Peckham & Peckham, 1901 (type) – Brazil, Argentina
  • Tacuna minensis Galiano, 1995 – Brazil
  • Tacuna saltensis Galiano, 1995 – Argentina
  • Tacuna vaga (Peckham & Peckham, 1895) – Brazil

References
  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Tacuna Peckham & Peckham, 1901". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
  2. Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1901). "Pellenes and some other genera of the family Attidae". Bulletin of the Wisconsin Natural History Society. 1: 195–233.


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