Biology:Chira (spider)
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Short description: Genus of spiders
| Chira | |
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| Chira lucina | |
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: | Chira Peckham & Peckham, 1896[1] |
| Type species | |
| C. trivittata (Taczanowski, 1871)
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| Species | |
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13, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Chira is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George Peckham & Elizabeth Peckham in 1896.[5] It is currently named after Rio Chira, a river in Peru, but the Peckhams originally called the genus Shira, later emended by Eugène Simon.
Species
(As of June 2019) it contains thirteen species, found only in South America, Guatemala, and Honduras:[1]
- Chira distincta Bauab, 1983 – Brazil
- Chira fagei Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
- Chira flavescens Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
- Chira gounellei (Simon, 1902) – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
- Chira guianensis (Taczanowski, 1871) – Peru to Guyana
- Chira lanei Soares & Camargo, 1948 – Brazil
- Chira lucina Simon, 1902 – Brazil, Guyana
- Chira reticulata (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil
- Chira simoni Galiano, 1961 – Brazil, Paraguay
- Chira spinosa (Mello-Leitão, 1939) – Honduras to Argentina
- Chira thysbe Simon, 1902 – Brazil, Guyana
- Chira trivittata (Taczanowski, 1871) (type) – Guatemala to Bolivia
- Chira typica (Mello-Leitão, 1930) – Brazil
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Chira Peckham & Peckham, 1896. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2577. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
- ↑ Galiano, M. E. (1968). "Adiciones a la revision del género Chira Peckham, 1896 (Araneae, Salticidae)". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales 27: 350.
- ↑ Galiano, M. E. (1980). "Catalogo de los especimenes tipicos de Salticidae (Araneae) descriptos por Candido F. de Mello-Leitão. Primera parte". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales 39: 37.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Galiano, M. E. (1961). "Un género de Salticidae (Araneae), nuevo para la Argentina: Alcimonotus Simon, 1902". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales 21: 322.
- ↑ Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1896). "Spiders of the family Attidae from Central America and Mexico". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 3: 1–101.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q117844 entry
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