Acragas is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900.[2] The name is derived from the Greek name of Agrigentum, an ancient city on Sicily.

Acragas
Female Acragas longimanus in Ecuador
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Acragas
Simon, 1900[1]
Type species
A. longimanus
Simon, 1900
Species

20, see text

Species

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As of June 2019 it contains twenty species, found only in Central America, South America, and Mexico:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Acragas Simon, 1900". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. ^ Simon, E. (1900). "Etudes arachnologiques. 30e Mémoire. XLVII. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Attidae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 69: 27–61. doi:10.1080/21686351.1900.12280033.