Sassacus (spider)
| Sassacus | |
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| Female Sassacus papenhoei | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Sassacus Peckham & Peckham, 1895[1] |
| Type species | |
| S. papenhoei Peckham & Peckham, 1895 | |
| Species | |
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21, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Sassacus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1895.[4] It is likely named after Sassacus, a Native American chief of the 16th and 17th century.
Species
Female S. aurantiacus
Male S. barbipes
Female S. cyaneus
Female S. papenhoei
Male S. vitis
As of August 2019 it contains twenty-one species, found in North America, South America, Panama, and Costa Rica:[1]
- Sassacus alboguttatus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico
- Sassacus arcuatus Simon, 1901 – Brazil
- Sassacus aurantiacus Simon, 1901 – Brazil
- Sassacus aztecus Richman, 2008 – Mexico
- Sassacus barbipes (Peckham & Peckham, 1888) – Mexico to Costa Rica
- Sassacus biaccentuatus Simon, 1901 – Paraguay
- Sassacus cyaneus (Hentz, 1846) – USA
- Sassacus dissimilis Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Argentina
- Sassacus flavicinctus Crane, 1949 – Venezuela
- Sassacus glyphochelis Bauab, 1979 – Brazil
- Sassacus helenicus (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil
- Sassacus leucomystax (Caporiacco, 1947) – Guyana
- Sassacus lirios Richman, 2008 – Mexico to Costa Rica
- Sassacus ocellatus Crane, 1949 – Venezuela
- Sassacus paiutus (Gertsch, 1934) – USA, Mexico
- Sassacus papenhoei Peckham & Peckham, 1895 (type) – North America
- Sassacus resplendens Simon, 1901 – Venezuela
- Sassacus samalayucae Richman, 2008 – Mexico
- Sassacus sexspinosus (Caporiacco, 1955) – Venezuela
- Sassacus trochilus Simon, 1901 – Brazil
- Sassacus vitis (Cockerell, 1894) – Canada to Panama
References
- 1 2 3 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Sassacus Peckham & Peckham, 1895". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ↑ Richman, D. B. (2008). "Revision of the jumping spider genus Sassacus (Araneae, Salticidae, Dendryphantinae) in North America" (PDF). Journal of Arachnology. 36: 27. doi:10.1636/H07-03.1. ISSN 0161-8202. S2CID 83998396.
- ↑ Bauab V., M. J.; Soares, B. A. M. (1982). "Contribuição ao estudo dos Salticidae (Araneae) do Brasil. IX". Revista Brasileira de Entomologia. 26: 89.
- ↑ Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1895). "Spiders of the Homalattus group of the family Attidae". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 2: 159–183.
External links
- Pictures of P. papenhoei Archived 2011-05-17 at the Wayback Machine