Ashtabula (spider)

Ashtabula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Ashtabula ; Peckham & Peckham, 1894
Type species
	A. zonura ; Peckham & Peckham, 1894
Species
	9, see text

Last updated March 28, 2026

Ashtabula is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham in 1894.^[2]

Species

As of June 2019^[update] it contains nine species, found in Central America, Colombia, Brazil, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Mexico:^[1]

Ashtabula bicristata (Simon, 1901) – Venezuela
Ashtabula cuprea Mello-Leitão, 1946 – Uruguay
Ashtabula dentata F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 – Guatemala to Panama
Ashtabula dentichelis Simon, 1901 – Venezuela
Ashtabula furcillata Crane, 1949 – Venezuela
Ashtabula glauca Simon, 1901 – Mexico
Ashtabula montana Chickering, 1946 – Panama
Ashtabula sexguttata Simon, 1901 – Brazil
Ashtabula zonura Peckham & Peckham, 1894 (type) – Colombia

References

1 2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Ashtabula Peckham & Peckham, 1894". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-05.
↑ Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1894). "Spiders of the Marptusa group". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 2: 85–156.

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[NMBE-1] 1 2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Ashtabula Peckham & Peckham, 1894". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-05.

[Peck1894-2] Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1894). "Spiders of the Marptusa group". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 2: 85–156.

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