Biology:Zuniga (spider)

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Zuniga
Zuniga ECU11-9292.jpg
Female Zuniga sp. in Ecuador
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Zuniga
Peckham & Peckham, 1892[1]
Type species
Z. laeta
(Peckham & Peckham, 1892)
Species
  • Z. laeta (Peckham & Peckham, 1892) – Colombia, Brazil , Argentina
  • Peckham & Peckham, 1892 – Mexico, Costa Rica to Brazil, Guyana, Peru, Argentina Z. magna
Synonyms[1]
  • Arindas Mello-Leitão, 1933[2]
  • Simprulloides Mello-Leitão, 1933[3]

Zuniga is a genus of ant mimicking jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1892.[4] (As of September 2019) it contains two species, found in South America, Costa Rica, and Mexico: Z. laeta and Z. magna.[1] It is a senior synonym of Arindas[2] and Simprulloides.[3]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Zuniga Peckham & Peckham, 1892. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3066. Retrieved 2019-10-12. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Galiano, M. E. (1964). "Salticidae (Araneae) formiciformes. II. Revisión del género Zuniga Peckham, 1892". Acta Zoologica Lilloana 20: 69. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Galiano, M. E. (1981). "Catalogo de los especimenes tipicos de Salticidae (Araneae) descriptos por Candido F. de Mello-Leitão. Segunda parte". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales 39: 15. 
  4. Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1892). "Ant-like spiders of the family Attidae". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2 (1): 1–84. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1943667 entry