Zygoballus tibialis

Zygoballus tibialis
Male Zygoballus tibialis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Zygoballus
Species: Z. tibialis
Binomial name
Zygoballus tibialis
F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1901

Zygoballus tibialis is a species of jumping spider native to Central America.[1] It was first described by the arachnologist Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1901.[1][2] The type specimens are housed at the Natural History Museum in London.[3]

The species has been collected from Mexico (Chiapas),[4] Guatemala,[2] Costa Rica,[5] and possibly Panama.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 Platnick, Norman I. (2014). "Zygoballus tibialis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901". The World Spider Catalog, Version 15.5. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2014-09-27.
  2. 1 2 Pickard-Cambridge, Frederick Octavius (1901). Arachnida - Volume II: Araneidea and Opiliones. In Biologia Centrali-Americana. London: Dulau & Co. p. 292.
  3. ↑ Prószyński, Jerzy (April 28, 2013). "Zygoballus tibialis Pickard-Cambridge F., 1901". Global Species Database of Salticidae (Araneae). Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2014-09-27.
  4. ↑ Ibarra-Núñez, Guillermo; Maya-Morales, Julieta; Chamé-Vázquez, David (2011). "Spiders of the cloud montane forest of the Biosphere Reserve Volcán Tacaná, Chiapas, Mexico". Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 82: 1183–1193.
  5. ↑ Banks, Nathan (1909). "Arachnida from Costa Rica". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 61 (2): 224.
  6. ↑ Chickering, Arthur M. (September 1946). "The Salticidae (Spiders) of Panama". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 97: 404.

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