Popcornella

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Popcornella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Popcornella
Zhang & Maddison, 2012 [1]
Type species
P. spiniformis
Zhang & Maddison, 2012
Species

4, see text

Popcornella is a genus of Caribbean jumping spiders that was first described by J. X. Zhang & Wayne Paul Maddison in 2012. [2]

Species

As of August 2019 it contains four species, found only in Puerto Rico and on Hispaniola: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Popcornella Zhang & Maddison, 2012". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-09-11.
  2. Zhang, J. X.; Maddison, W. P. (2012). "New euophryine jumping spiders from the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae)". Zootaxa. 3476: 1–54. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3476.1.1.