Sassacus (spider)

This article is about a genus of spiders. For Native American leader, see Sassacus.

Sassacus
Female Sassacus papenhoei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Sassacus Peckham & Peckham, 1895 [1]
Type species
S. papenhoei Peckham & Peckham, 1895
Species
21, see text
Synonyms [1]
Agassa Simon, 1901 [2] Ramboia Mello-Leitão, 1943 [3]

Sassacus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1895. ^[4] It is likely named after Sassacus, a Native American chief of the 16th and 17th century.

Species

• 
  Female S. aurantiacus
• 
  Male S. barbipes
• 
  Female S. cyaneus
• 
  Female S. papenhoei
• 
  Male S. vitis

As of August 2019 ^[update] it contains twenty-one species, found in North America, South America, Panama, and Costa Rica: ^[1]

• Sassacus alboguttatus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico
• Sassacus arcuatus Simon, 1901 – Brazil
• Sassacus aurantiacus Simon, 1901 – Brazil
• Sassacus aztecus Richman, 2008 – Mexico
• Sassacus barbipes (Peckham & Peckham, 1888) – Mexico to Costa Rica
• Sassacus biaccentuatus Simon, 1901 – Paraguay
• Sassacus cyaneus (Hentz, 1846) – USA
• Sassacus dissimilis Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Argentina
• Sassacus flavicinctus Crane, 1949 – Venezuela
• Sassacus glyphochelis Bauab, 1979 – Brazil
• Sassacus helenicus (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil
• Sassacus leucomystax (Caporiacco, 1947) – Guyana
• Sassacus lirios Richman, 2008 – Mexico to Costa Rica
• Sassacus ocellatus Crane, 1949 – Venezuela
• Sassacus paiutus (Gertsch, 1934) – USA, Mexico
• Sassacus papenhoei Peckham & Peckham, 1895 (type) – North America
• Sassacus resplendens Simon, 1901 – Venezuela
• Sassacus samalayucae Richman, 2008 – Mexico
• Sassacus sexspinosus (Caporiacco, 1955) – Venezuela
• Sassacus trochilus Simon, 1901 – Brazil
• Sassacus vitis (Cockerell, 1894) – Canada to Panama

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Sassacus Peckham & Peckham, 1895". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-09-23.
2. Richman, D. B. (2008). "Revision of the jumping spider genus Sassacus (Araneae, Salticidae, Dendryphantinae) in North America" (PDF). Journal of Arachnology. 36: 27. doi:10.1636/H07-03.1. ISSN   0161-8202. S2CID   83998396.
3. Bauab V., M. J.; Soares, B. A. M. (1982). "Contribuição ao estudo dos Salticidae (Araneae) do Brasil. IX". Revista Brasileira de Entomologia. 26: 89.
4. Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1895). "Spiders of the Homalattus group of the family Attidae". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 2: 159–183.

External links

• Pictures of P. papenhoei Archived 2011-05-17 at the Wayback Machine