Pensacola (spider)

Pensacola
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Pensacola
Peckham & Peckham, 1885
Type species
P. signata
Peckham & Peckham, 1885
Species

9, see text

Pensacola is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1885.

Species

As of August 2019 it contains nine species, found in Central America, Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador, Brazil, and Mexico:

References

  1. ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Pensacola Peckham & Peckham, 1885". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 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.