Psecas
| Psecas | |
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| Immature male Psecas euoplus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Psecas C. L. Koch, 1850[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. cyaneus (C. L. Koch, 1846)
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| Species | |
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14, see text | |
Psecas is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850.[2]
Species[edit]
As of August 2019[update] it contains fourteen species, found only in South America, Panama, and on Trinidad:[1]
- Psecas bacelarae Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
- Psecas barbaricus (Peckham & Peckham, 1894) – Trinidad
- Psecas bubo (Taczanowski, 1871) – Guyana
- Psecas chapoda (Peckham & Peckham, 1894) – Brazil
- Psecas chrysogrammus (Simon, 1901) – Peru, Brazil
- Psecas cyaneus (C. L. Koch, 1846) (type) – Suriname
- Psecas euoplus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 – Panama
- Psecas jaguatirica Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Colombia
- Psecas pulcher Badcock, 1932 – Paraguay
- Psecas rubrostriatus Schmidt, 1956 – Colombia
- Psecas sumptuosus (Perty, 1833) – Panama to Argentina
- Psecas vellutinus Mello-Leitão, 1948 – Guyana
- Psecas viridipurpureus (Simon, 1901) – Brazil
- Psecas zonatus Galiano, 1963 – Brazil
References[edit]
- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Psecas C. L. Koch, 1850". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
- ^ Koch, C. L. (1850). Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg. pp. 1–77. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.39561.
External links[edit]
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