Sassacus (spider)

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Sassacus
Adult female Sassacus papenhoei dorsal.jpg
Female Sassacus papenhoei
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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]

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.

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Species

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

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References

  1. 1 2 3 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.