Semora

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Semora
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Semora
Peckham & Peckham, 1892 [1]
Type species
S. napaea
Peckham & Peckham, 1892
Species

4, see text

Semora is a genus of South American jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1892. [2]

Species

As of August 2019 it contains four species, found only in Venezuela, Brazil, and Argentina: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Semora Peckham & Peckham, 1892". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1892). "Ant-like spiders of the family Attidae". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 2 (1): 1–84.