Chapoda

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Chapoda
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Male Chapoda recondita in Veracruz, Mexico
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Chapoda
Peckham & Peckham, 1896 [1]
Type species
C. festiva
Peckham & Peckham, 1896
Species

13, see text

Chapoda is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George Peckham & Elizabeth Peckham in 1896. [2]

Species

As of June 2019 it contains thirteen species, found in Central America, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Mexico: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Chapoda Peckham & Peckham, 1896". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1896). "Spiders of the family Attidae from Central America and Mexico". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 3: 1–101.