Pensacolops

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Pensacolops
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Euophryinae
Tribe: Pensacolini
Genus: Pensacolops
Bauab, 1983
Species: P. rubrovittata
Binomial name
Pensacolops rubrovittata
Bauab, 1983

Pensacolops is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders), with only one species that occurs in Brazil.

[edit] Name

The genus name is derived from the salticid genus Pensacola and the Greek root -ops "to look like". The species name is from Latin rubrus "red" and vittatus "striped".