Sassacus (spider)

Sassacus
Female Sassacus papenhoei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Dendryphantinae
Genus: Sassacus
Type species
Sassacus papenhoei
Peckham & Peckham, 1895
Species

see text

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 and 17th 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) – United States 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

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.


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