Peckhamia
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Peckhamia is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).
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[edit] Name
The genus is named in honor of George and Elizabeth Peckham, who identified many salticids at the time.
[edit] Species
- Peckhamia americana (Peckham & Peckham, 1892) — USA, Mexico
- Peckhamia argentinensis Galiano, 1986 — Argentina
- Peckhamia picata (Hentz, 1846) — USA, Canada
- Peckhamia prescotti Chickering, 1946 — El Salvador, Panama
- Peckhamia scorpionia (Hentz, 1846) — USA, Canada
- Peckhamia seminola Gertsch, 1936 — USA
- Peckhamia variegata (F. O. P-Cambridge, 1900) — Panama
There is a recently described species Peckhamia soesilae Makhan, 2006 from Surinam.
[edit] References
- Platnick, Norman I. (2008): The world spider catalog, version 8.5. American Museum of Natural History.
