Pensacola (spider)

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

Pensacola
Male Pensacola signata in Belize
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Pensacola Peckham & Peckham, 1885 [1]
Type species
P. signata Peckham & Peckham, 1885
Species
9, see text

Pensacola is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1885. ^[2]

Species

As of August 2019 ^[update] it contains nine species, found in Central America, Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador, Brazil, and Mexico: ^[1]

• Pensacola castanea Simon, 1902 – Brazil
• Pensacola cyaneochirus Simon, 1902 – Ecuador
• Pensacola gaujoni Simon, 1902 – Ecuador
• Pensacola murina Simon, 1902 – Brazil, Guyana
• Pensacola ornata Simon, 1902 – Brazil
• Pensacola poecilocilia Caporiacco, 1955 – Venezuela
• Pensacola radians (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Panama
• Pensacola signata Peckham & Peckham, 1885 (type) – Guatemala
• Pensacola sylvestris (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Mexico, Guatemala

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Pensacola Peckham & Peckham, 1885". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-09-08.
2. Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1885). "On some new genera and species of Attidae from the eastern part of Guatemala". Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 1885: 62–86.

External links

• Diagnostic drawings of Pensacola species