Chira (spider)

Chira is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George Peckham & Elizabeth Peckham in 1896.[5] It is currently named after Rio Chira, a river in Peru, but the Peckhams originally called the genus Shira, later emended by Eugène Simon.

Chira
Chira lucina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Chira
Peckham & Peckham, 1896[1]
Type species
C. trivittata
(Taczanowski, 1871)
Species

13, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

As of June 2019 it contains thirteen species, found only in South America, Guatemala, and Honduras:[1]

  • Chira distincta Bauab, 1983 – Brazil
  • Chira fagei Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
  • Chira flavescens Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
  • Chira gounellei (Simon, 1902) – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
  • Chira guianensis (Taczanowski, 1871) – Peru to Guyana
  • Chira lanei Soares & Camargo, 1948 – Brazil
  • Chira lucina Simon, 1902 – Brazil, Guyana
  • Chira reticulata (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil
  • Chira simoni Galiano, 1961 – Brazil, Paraguay
  • Chira spinosa (Mello-Leitão, 1939) – Honduras to Argentina
  • Chira thysbe Simon, 1902 – Brazil, Guyana
  • Chira trivittata (Taczanowski, 1871) (type) – Guatemala to Bolivia
  • Chira typica (Mello-Leitão, 1930) – Brazil

References
  1. "Gen. Chira Peckham & Peckham, 1896". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. Galiano, M. E. (1968). "Adiciones a la revision del género Chira Peckham, 1896 (Araneae, Salticidae)". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales. 27: 350.
  3. Galiano, M. E. (1980). "Catalogo de los especimenes tipicos de Salticidae (Araneae) descriptos por Candido F. de Mello-Leitão. Primera parte". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales. 39: 37.
  4. Galiano, M. E. (1961). "Un género de Salticidae (Araneae), nuevo para la Argentina: Alcimonotus Simon, 1902". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales. 21: 322.
  5. Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1896). "Spiders of the family Attidae from Central America and Mexico". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 3: 1–101.



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