Pensacola (spider)

Pensacola
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Euophryinae
Genus: Pensacola
Type species
Pensacola signata
Peckham & Peckham, 1885
Species

see text

Diversity
9 species

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

Name

The genus name is probably derived from Pensacola, Florida.

Species

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

  • Pensacola castanea Simon, 1902 – Brazil
  • Pensacola cyaneochirus Simon, 1902 – Ecuador
  • Pensacola gaujoni Simon, 1902 – Ecuador
  • Pensacola murina Simon, 1902 – Brazil, Guyana
  • Pensacola ornata Simon, 1902 – Brazil
  • Pensacola poecilocilia Caporiacco, 1955 – Venezuela
  • Pensacola radians (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Panama
  • Pensacola signata Peckham & Peckham, 1885 – Guatemala
  • Pensacola sylvestris (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Mexico, Guatemala

References

  1. ↑ World Spider Catalog (2017). "Gen. Pensacola Peckham & Peckham, 1885". World Spider Catalog. 18.0. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
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