Sassacus (spider)
| Sassacus | |
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| Female Sassacus papenhoei | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Dendryphantinae |
| Genus: | Sassacus Peckham & Peckham, 1895 |
| Type species | |
| Sassacus papenhoei Peckham & Peckham, 1895 | |
| Species | |
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| Diversity | |
| 20 species | |
Sassacus is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).[1]
Name
The genus is probably named after Sassacus, a Native American chief of the 16th century.
Species
The genus includes the following recognized species:[2]
- Sassacus alboguttatus (F. O. P-Cambridge, 1901) — Mexico
- Sassacus arcuatus Simon, 1901 — Brazil
- Sassacus arcuatus Simon, 1901 — Brazil
- Sassacus aurantiacus Simon, 1901 — Brazil
- Sassacus aztecus Richman, 2008 — Mexico
- Sassacus barbipes (Peckham & Peckham, 1888) — USA to Costa Rica
- Sassacus biaccentuatus Simon, 1901 — Paraguay
- Sassacus cyaneus (Hentz, 1846) — USA
- Sassacus dissimilis Mello-Leitão, 1941 — Argentina
- Sassacus flavicinctus Crane, 1949 — Venezuela
- Sassacus glyphochelis Bauab, 1979 — Brazil
- Sassacus helenicus (Mello-Leitão, 1943) — Brazil
- Sassacus lirios Richman, 2008 — Mexico to Costa Rica
- Sassacus ocellatus Crane, 1949 — Venezuela
- Sassacus paiutus (Gertsch, 1934) — USA
- Sassacus papenhoei Peckham & Peckham, 1895 — USA
- Sassacus resplendens Simon, 1901 — Venezuela
- Sassacus samalayucae Richman, 2008 — Mexico
- Sassacus sexspinosus (Caporiacco, 1955) — Venezuela
- Sassacus trochilus Simon, 1901 — Brazil
- Sassacus vitis (Cockerell, 1894) — Canada to Panama
References
- ↑ Richman, David B. (2008). "Revision of the jumping spider genus Sassacus (Araneae, Salticidae, Dendryphantinae) in North America" (PDF). Journal of Arachnology 36 (1): 26–48. doi:10.1636/H07-03.1. ISSN 0161-8202.
- ↑ Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.
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