Philodromidae, also known as philodromid crab spiders and running crab spiders, is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell in 1870. It contains over 500 species in thirty genera.
Long-jawed orb weavers or long jawed spiders (Tetragnathidae) are a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Anton Menge in 1866. They have elongated bodies, legs, and chelicerae, and build small orb webs with an open hub with few, wide-set radii and spirals with no signal line or retreat. Some species are often found in long vegetation near water.
Anasaitis is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by E. B. Bryant in 1950. The name is derived from the salticid genus Saitis.
Beata is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George Peckham & Elizabeth Peckham in 1895.
Corythalia is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850. The genus is distributed throughout most of the Western Hemisphere. Species of this genus are found in The Americas.
Cylistella is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1901.
Acanthoctenus is a genus of Central to South American wandering spiders first described by Eugen von Keyserling in 1877.
Psalmopoeus is a genus of the family Theraphosidae containing various species of tarantulas. The genus is native to Trinidad and Tobago, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Belize, Panama, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras. All of these tarantulas are arboreal in nature, Psalmopoeus victori being the first arboreal tarantula of Mexico.
Neischnocolus is a genus of spiders in the family Theraphosidae. It was first described in 1925 by Petrunkevitch. The genus Ami was separately described in 2008, but was later discovered to be a junior synonym of Neischnocolus. Species are native to Central America and northern South America.
Melpomene is a genus of funnel weavers first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1898. They range from southwestern U.S. to Panama and can grow up to 7 to 8.5 millimetres long. Roth and Brame noted that, with many undescribed species, the genus appears to be a catchall or "wastebasket taxon" for several unrelated species that may represent several genera.
Glenognatha is a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1887. It was considerably revised in 2016.
Tennesseellum is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by Alexander Ivanovitch Petrunkevitch in 1925. As of May 2019 it contains only two species, both found in North America, the United States, and on the Marshall Islands: T. formica and T. gollum.
Trichopelma zebra is a species of ischnocoline tarantula that is known from Panama.
Trichopelma is a genus of South American and Caribbean tarantulas first described by Eugène Simon in 1888.
Modisimus is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1893.
Wulfila is a genus of ghost spiders first described by O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1895. They are easily recognized by their pale white elongated legs.
Zygoballus maculatipes is a species of jumping spider which occurs in Panama. It is known only from two female specimens, one collected in Soná, and the other collected from the Wilcox camp on the San Lorenzo River. The species was first described in 1925 by the Russian arachnologist Alexander Petrunkevitch.
Erendira is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by A. B. Bonaldo in 2000.
Kiekie is a genus of wandering spiders first described by D. Polotow and Antônio Domingos Brescovit in 2018. The type species, Kiekie sinuatipes, was originally described under the name "Ctenus sinuatipes".
Hyetussa longithorax is a species of spider in the jumping spider family Salticidae, found in Panama.
