Biology:Scopocira

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Scopocira
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Scopocira
Simon, 1900[1]
Type species
S. dentichelis
Simon, 1900
Species

15, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Paranaia Mello-Leitão, 1941[2]
  • Suaruna Mello-Leitão, 1945[3]

Scopocira is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900.[4]

Species

(As of August 2019) it contains fifteen species, found in Central and South America and in the Caribbean:[1]

  • Scopocira abaporu Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Trinidad, Bolivia
  • Scopocira albertoi Galvis, 2015 – Colombia
  • Scopocira bicornia Costa & Ruiz, 2014Brazil
  • Scopocira carinata Crane, 1945 – Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil
  • Scopocira cepa Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Brazil
  • Scopocira crotalica Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Colombia, Brazil
  • Scopocira cyrili Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Guyana, French Guiana
  • Scopocira dentichelis Simon, 1900 (type) – Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil
  • Scopocira fuscimana (Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Brazil
  • Scopocira histrio Simon, 1900 – Ecuador, Suriname, Brazil, Argentina
  • Scopocira kunai Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Trinidad, Brazil
  • Scopocira melanops (Taczanowski, 1871) – Brazil
  • Scopocira pterodactyla Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Brazil
  • Scopocira sciosciae Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Brazil
  • Scopocira tenella Simon, 1900 – Colombia, French Guiana, Brazil

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Scopocira Simon, 1900. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2948. Retrieved 2019-09-23. 
  2. 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: 12. 
  3. Galiano, M. E. (1958). "Novedades sobre los géneros Scopocira Simon y Gypogyna Simon (Araneae, Salticidae)". Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 20: 25. 
  4. Simon, E. (1900). "Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 44: 381–407. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q277275 entry