Paradamoetas

Paradamoetas is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1885.[2] The name is a combination of the Ancient Greek "para" (παρά), meaning "alongside", and the salticid genus Damoetas.

Paradamoetas
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Paradamoetas
Peckham & Peckham, 1885[1]
Type species
P. formicinus
Peckham & Peckham, 1885
Species

4, see text

Species

As of August 2019 it contains four species, found in Central America, Canada, the United States, and Mexico:[1]

  • Paradamoetas carus (Peckham & Peckham, 1892) – Mexico to El Salvador
  • Paradamoetas changuinola Cutler, 1982 – Panama
  • Paradamoetas fontanus (Levi, 1951) – USA, Canada
  • Paradamoetas formicinus Peckham & Peckham, 1885 (type) – USA to Nicaragua

References
  1. "Gen. Paradamoetas Peckham & Peckham, 1885". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-08.
  2. Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1885). "On some new genera and species of Attidae from the eastern part of Guatemala". Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 1885: 62–86.


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