Peckhamia (spider)

Peckhamia
Female Peckhamia americana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Peckhamia
Simon, 1901[1]
Type species
Synemosyna scorpionia
Hentz, 1846[1]
Species

See text.

Synonyms[1]
  • Consingis Simon, 1900

Peckhamia is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).

Name

The genus is named in honor of George and Elizabeth Peckham, who identified many salticids at the time.

Species

As of November 2015, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[1]

  • Peckhamia americana (Peckham & Peckham, 1892) – USA, Mexico, Hispaniola
  • Peckhamia argentinensis Galiano, 1986 – Argentina
  • Peckhamia picata (Hentz, 1846) – North America
  • Peckhamia prescotti Chickering, 1946 – El Salvador, Panama
  • Peckhamia scorpionia (Hentz, 1846)T – USA, Canada
  • Peckhamia semicana (Simon, 1900) – Brazil, Argentina
  • Peckhamia seminola Gertsch, 1936 – USA
  • Peckhamia soesilae Makhan, 2006 – Suriname
  • Peckhamia variegata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900) – Panama

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Gen. Peckhamia Simon, 1900", World Spider Catalog (Natural History Museum Bern), retrieved 2015-11-12

External links

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