Peckhamia is a genus of ant-mimicking jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900.[3] It is named in honor of George and Elizabeth Peckham, and is considered a senior synonym of the genus Consingis.[2]
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| Female Peckhamia sp. | |
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: | Peckhamia Simon, 1900[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. scorpionia (Hentz, 1846)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
Species
editAs of August 2019[update] it contains nine species, found in North America, Central America, Suriname, Argentina, Brazil, and on Hispaniola:[1]
- Peckhamia americana (Peckham & Peckham, 1892) – USA, Mexico, Hispaniola
- Peckhamia argentinensis Galiano, 1986 – Argentina
- Peckhamia picata (Hentz, 1846) – North America
- Peckhamia prescotti Chickering, 1946 – El Salvador, Panama
- Peckhamia scorpionia (Hentz, 1846) (type) – USA, Canada
- Peckhamia semicana (Simon, 1900) – Brazil, Argentina
- Peckhamia seminola Gertsch, 1936 – USA (Florida)
- Peckhamia soesilae Makhan, 2006 – Suriname
- Peckhamia variegata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900) – Panama
References
edit- ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Peckhamia Simon, 1900". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-08.
- ^ a b Richman, D. B. (2015). "On the generic name Peckhamia Simon 1900 (Araneae, Salticidae)". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 72 (1): 103. doi:10.21805/bzn.v72i1.a6. S2CID 87955152.
- ^ Simon, E. (1900). "Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 44: 381–407.
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