Beata (spider)

This article is about a genus of spiders. For other uses, see Beata (disambiguation).

Beata
Adult male Beata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Beata Peckham & Peckham, 1895 [1]
Type species
B. magna Peckham & Peckham, 1895
Species
21, see text
Synonyms [1]
Dryphias Simon, 1901 [2]

Beata is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George Peckham & Elizabeth Peckham in 1895. ^[3]

Species

As of June 2019 ^[update] it contains twenty-one species, found in Central America, North America, the Caribbean, Colombia, Paraguay, Argentina, Guyana, and Brazil: ^[1]

• Beata aenea (Mello-Leitão, 1945) – Brazil, Argentina
• Beata blauveltae Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
• Beata cephalica F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 – Panama
• Beata cinereonitida Simon, 1902 – Brazil
• Beata fausta (Peckham & Peckham, 1901) – Brazil
• Beata germaini Simon, 1902 – Brazil, Paraguay
• Beata hispida (Peckham & Peckham, 1901) – Mexico
• Beata inconcinna (Peckham & Peckham, 1895) – Trinidad
• Beata jubata (C. L. Koch, 1846) – St. Thomas
• Beata longipes (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Panama
• Beata lucida (Galiano, 1992) – Argentina
• Beata maccuni (Peckham & Peckham, 1895) – Panama to Brazil
• Beata magna Peckham & Peckham, 1895 (type) – Guatemala to Colombia
• Beata munda Chickering, 1946 – Panama
• Beata octopunctata (Peckham & Peckham, 1894) – St. Vincent
• Beata pernix (Peckham & Peckham, 1901) – Brazil
• Beata rustica (Peckham & Peckham, 1895) – Guatemala to Brazil
• Beata striata Petrunkevitch, 1925 – Panama
• Beata venusta Chickering, 1946 – Panama
• Beata wickhami (Peckham & Peckham, 1894) – USA, Bahama Is., Cuba
• Beata zeteki Chickering, 1946 – Panama

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Beata Peckham & Peckham, 1895". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-05.
2. Maddison, W. P. (1996). "Pelegrina Franganillo and other jumping spiders formerly placed in the genus Metaphidippus (Araneae: Salticidae)". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 154: 237.
3. Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1895). "Spiders of the Homalattus group of the family Attidae". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 2: 159–183.