Biology:Martella
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Short description: Genus of spiders
| Martella | |
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| Adult male Martella from Belize | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Martella Peckham & Peckham, 1892[1] |
| Type species | |
| M. pottsi Peckham & Peckham, 1892
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| Species | |
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12, see text | |
Martella is a genus of ant mimicking jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1892.[2]
Species
As of June 2019[update] it contains twelve species, found in Central America, Peru, Argentina , Brazil , and Mexico:[1]
- Martella amapa Galiano, 1996 – Brazil
- Martella bicavata (Chickering, 1946) – Panama
- Martella camba (Galiano, 1969) – Argentina
- Martella furva (Chickering, 1946) – Panama
- Martella gandu Galiano, 1996 – Brazil
- Martella goianensis Galiano, 1969 – Brazil
- Martella lineatipes F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 – Mexico to Costa Rica
- Martella maria Peckham & Peckham, 1892 – Brazil
- Martella mutillaeformis (Taczanowski, 1878) – Peru
- Martella pasteuri Galiano, 1996 – Brazil
- Martella pottsi Peckham & Peckham, 1892 (type) – Guatemala to Brazil
- Martella utingae (Galiano, 1967) – Brazil
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Gen. Martella Peckham & Peckham, 1892". Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2773. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
- ↑ 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.
Wikidata ☰ Q1942990 entry
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