Itata is a genus of spiders in the jumping spider family, Salticidae.
| Itata | |
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| Itata completa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Itata Peckham & Peckham, 1894 |
| Type species | |
| Itata vadia Peckham & Peckham, 1894
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| Species | |
Name
editThe genus name is derived from the Itata River in southern Chile.
Species
edit- Itata completa (Banks, 1929) – Panama
- Itata isabellina (Taczanowski, 1878) – Peru
- Itata partita Mello-Leitão, 1930 – Brazil
- Itata tipuloides Simon, 1901 – Peru, Bolivia, Brazil
- Itata vadia Peckham & Peckham, 1894 – Colombia
References
edit- Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.
External links
edit- Awesome Spiders: Photograph of live Itata species from Barro Colorado Island and Itata completa
- Salticidae.org: Photographs of in vitro Itata species from Brazil
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