Mendoza (spider)

Mendoza is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1894.[2]

Mendoza
Mendoza elongata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Mendoza
Peckham & Peckham, 1894[1]
Type species
M. canestrinii
(Ninni, 1868)
Species

9, see text

Species

As of June 2019 it contains nine species, found only in Africa, Asia, and Europe:[1]

  • Mendoza canestrinii (Ninni, 1868) (type) – Southern Europe, North Africa to Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam
  • Mendoza dersuuzalai (Logunov & Wesolowska, 1992)Russia
  • Mendoza elongata (Karsch, 1879) – Russia, China, Korea, Japan
  • Mendoza ibarakiensis (Bohdanowicz & Prószyński, 1987) – Japan
  • Mendoza nobilis (Grube, 1861) – Russia, Korea, China
  • Mendoza pulchra (Prószyński, 1981) – Russia, China, Korea, Japan
  • Mendoza ryukyuensis Baba, 2007 – Japan
  • Mendoza suguroi Baba, 2013 – Japan
  • Mendoza zebra (Logunov & Wesolowska, 1992) – Russia

References

  1. "Gen. Mendoza Peckham & Peckham, 1894". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
  2. Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1894). "Spiders of the Marptusa group". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 2: 85–156.


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