Beata (spider)

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Beata
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Adult male Beata
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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]

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

Species

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

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References

  1. 1 2 3 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.