Psecas

Psecas is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850.[2]

Psecas
Immature male Psecas euoplus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Psecas
C. L. Koch, 1850[1]
Type species
P. cyaneus
(C. L. Koch, 1846)
Species

14, see text

Species

As of August 2019 it contains fourteen species, found only in South America, Panama, and on Trinidad:[1]

  • Psecas bacelarae Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
  • Psecas barbaricus (Peckham & Peckham, 1894) – Trinidad
  • Psecas bubo (Taczanowski, 1871) – Guyana
  • Psecas chapoda (Peckham & Peckham, 1894) – Brazil
  • Psecas chrysogrammus (Simon, 1901) – Peru, Brazil
  • Psecas cyaneus (C. L. Koch, 1846) (type) – Suriname
  • Psecas euoplus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 – Panama
  • Psecas jaguatirica Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Colombia
  • Psecas pulcher Badcock, 1932 – Paraguay
  • Psecas rubrostriatus Schmidt, 1956 – Colombia
  • Psecas sumptuosus (Perty, 1833) – Panama to Argentina
  • Psecas vellutinus Mello-Leitão, 1948 – Guyana
  • Psecas viridipurpureus (Simon, 1901) – Brazil
  • Psecas zonatus Galiano, 1963 – Brazil

References
  1. "Gen. Psecas C. L. Koch, 1850". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  2. Koch, C. L. (1850). Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg. pp. 1–77. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.39561.
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