Biology:Paradamoetas

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Paradamoetas
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Paradamoetas
Peckham & Peckham, 1885[1]
Type species
P. formicinus
Peckham & Peckham, 1885
Species

4, see text

Paradamoetas is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1885.[2] The name is a combination of the Ancient Greek "para" (παρά), meaning "alongside", and the salticid genus Damoetas.

Species

(As of June 2023) it contains four species, found in Canada , the United States , Mexico and across parts of Central America:[1]

  • Paradamoetas carus (Peckham & Peckham, 1892) – Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador
  • Paradamoetas changuinola Cutler, 1982 – Panama
  • Paradamoetas fontanus (Levi, 1951) – USA, Canada
  • Paradamoetas formicinus Peckham & Peckham, 1885 (type) – USA, Mexico, Guatemala to Nicaragua

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gen. Paradamoetas Peckham & Peckham, 1885. Natural History Museum Bern. 2023. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2849. Retrieved 2023-06-22. 
  2. Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1885). "On some new genera and species of Attidae from the eastern part of Guatemala". Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 1885: 62–86. 

Wikidata ☰ Q492887 entry