Pelegrina

For the famous pearl, see La Pelegrina pearl.

Pelegrina
Adult male Pelegrina pervaga
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Pelegrina Franganillo, 1930 [1]
Type species
Dendryphantes proximus Peckham & Peckham, 1901 [1]
Species
See text.
Diversity
38 species

Pelegrina is a genus of spiders in the jumping spider family Salticidae. They are found throughout North America. Many of the species in the genus Pelegrina were previously placed in the genus Metaphidippus , and before that, in Dendryphantes . ^[1] The genus was erected in 1930 by the Spanish arachnologist Pelegrín Franganillo Balboa, who named it after himself. ^[2]

Species

As of July 2024 ^[update] , the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species: ^[1]

• Pelegrina aeneola (Curtis, 1892) – North America
• Pelegrina arizonensis (Peckham & Peckham, 1901) – North America
• Pelegrina balia Maddison, 1996 – United States
• Pelegrina bicuspidata (F. O. P-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico, Guatemala
• Pelegrina bunites Maddison, 1996 – United States, Mexico
• Pelegrina chaimona Maddison, 1996 – United States, Mexico
• Pelegrina chalceola Maddison, 1996 – United States
• Pelegrina clavator Maddison, 1996 – Mexico
• Pelegrina clemata (Levi, 1951) – United States, Canada
• Pelegrina dithalea Maddison, 1996 – United States
• Pelegrina edrilana Maddison, 1996 – Mexico
• Pelegrina exigua (Banks, 1892) – United States
• Pelegrina flaviceps (Kaston, 1973) – United States, Canada
• Pelegrina flavipes (Peckham & Peckham, 1888) – United States, Canada
• Pelegrina furcata (F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1901) – United States, Mexico
• Pelegrina galathea (Walckenaer, 1837) – Canada to Costa Rica, Bermuda
• Pelegrina helenae (Banks, 1921) – United States
• Pelegrina huachuca Maddison, 1996 – United States
• Pelegrina insignis (Banks, 1892) – United States, Canada
• Pelegrina kastoni Maddison, 1996 – United States, Mexico
• Pelegrina montana (Emerton, 1891) – United States, Canada
• Pelegrina morelos Maddison, 1996 – Mexico
• Pelegrina neoleonis Maddison, 1996 – Mexico
• Pelegrina ochracea (F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico, Guatemala
• Pelegrina orestes Maddison, 1996 – United States, Mexico
• Pelegrina pallidata (F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico to Nicaragua
• Pelegrina peckhamorum (Kaston, 1973) – United States
• Pelegrina pervaga (Peckham & Peckham, 1909) – United States
• Pelegrina proterva (Walckenaer, 1837) – United States, Canada
• Pelegrina proxima (Peckham & Peckham, 1901) – Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica
• Pelegrina sabinema Maddison, 1996 – United States
• Pelegrina sandaracina Maddison, 1996 – Mexico to Nicaragua
• Pelegrina tillandsiae (Kaston, 1973) – United States
• Pelegrina tristis Maddison, 1996 – United States
• Pelegrina variegata (F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico to Panama
• Pelegrina verecunda (Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1930) – United States, Mexico
• Pelegrina volcana Maddison, 1996 – Panama
• Pelegrina yucatecana Maddison, 1996 – Mexico

References

2. Ubick, D.; Paquin, P.; Cushing, P.E.; Roth, V., eds. (2005). Spiders of North America: An Identification Manual. American Arachnological Society. p. 313. ISBN   978-0977143900.

External links

• Pictures of P. arizonensis
• Pictures of P. flavipedes
• Picture of P. galathea (free for noncommercial use)