Biology:Marengo (spider)

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Marengo
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Marengo
Peckham & Peckham, 1892[1]
Type species
M. crassipes
Peckham & Peckham, 1892
Species

6, see text

Marengo is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1892.[2] The name is derived from Marengo, a village in Italy and the name of Napoleon's horse.

Species

(As of June 2019), the World Spider Catalog recognizes the following species, found only in Asia:[1]

  • Marengo batheryensis Sudhin, Nafin, Benjamin & Sudhikumar, 2019India
  • Marengo crassipes Peckham & Peckham, 1892 (type) – India, Sri Lanka
  • Marengo deelemanae Benjamin, 2004 – Thailand
  • Marengo inornata (Simon, 1900) – Sri Lanka
  • Marengo nitida Simon, 1900 – Sri Lanka
  • Marengo rattotensis Benjamin, 2006 – Sri Lanka
  • Marengo sachintendulkar Malamel, Prajapati, Sudhikumar & Sebastian, 2019 – India
  • Marengo striatipes Simon, 1900 – Sri Lanka
  • Marengo zebra Sudhin, Nafin, Benjamin & Sudhikumar, 2019 – India

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Marengo Peckham & Peckham, 1892. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2769. Retrieved 2019-11-13. 
  2. 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 ☰ Q294075 entry