Marchena

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Marchena
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Heliophaninae
Genus: Marchena
Peckham & Peckham, 1909
Species: M. minuta
Diversity
1 species
Binomial name
Marchena minuta
(Peckham & Peckham, 1888)
Synonyms

Cytaea minuta
Marchena sissonii
Sitticus synopticus

Marchena is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Its only species, M. minuta, is only found in the USA.

[edit] Name

The genus name is probably derived from the Spanish city of the same name (province Sevilla).


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