Peckhamia (spider)
| Peckhamia | |
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| Female Peckhamia americana | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Genus: | Peckhamia Simon, 1901[1] |
| Type species | |
| Synemosyna scorpionia Hentz, 1846[1] | |
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Peckhamia is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).
Name
The genus is named in honor of George and Elizabeth Peckham, who identified many salticids at the time.
Species
As of November 2015, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[1]
- Peckhamia americana (Peckham & Peckham, 1892) – USA, Mexico, Hispaniola
- Peckhamia argentinensis Galiano, 1986 – Argentina
- Peckhamia picata (Hentz, 1846) – North America
- Peckhamia prescotti Chickering, 1946 – El Salvador, Panama
- Peckhamia scorpionia (Hentz, 1846)T – USA, Canada
- Peckhamia semicana (Simon, 1900) – Brazil, Argentina
- Peckhamia seminola Gertsch, 1936 – USA
- Peckhamia soesilae Makhan, 2006 – Suriname
- Peckhamia variegata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900) – Panama
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Gen. Peckhamia Simon, 1900", World Spider Catalog (Natural History Museum Bern), retrieved 2015-11-12
External links
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