Nycerella

Nycerella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Aelurillinae
Genus: Nycerella
Type species
Cyrene decorata
Peckham & Peckham, 1893
Species

see text

Diversity
8 species
Synonyms

Cyrene Peckham & Peckham

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

The genus was renamed from Cyrene Peckham & Peckham, 1893, because the name was preoccupied.

Species

As of June 2017, the World Spider Catalog lists the following species in the genus:[1]

  • Nycerella aprica (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
  • Nycerella decorata (Peckham & Peckham, 1893) – Panama, Colombia, St. Vincent
  • Nycerella delecta (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Mexico to Panama
  • Nycerella donaldi (Chickering, 1946) – Panama
  • Nycerella melanopygia Galiano, 1982 – Brazil
  • Nycerella neglecta Galiano, 1982 – Panama to Ecuador
  • Nycerella sanguinea (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Guatemala to Panama
  • Nycerella volucripes Galiano, 1982 – Brazil, Peru

References

  1. 1 2 World Spider Catalog (2017). "Gen. Nycerella Galiano, 1982". World Spider Catalog. 18.0. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 26 June 2017.


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