Pensacola (spider)

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Pensacola is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1885.[2]

Pensacola
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Pensacola
Peckham & Peckham, 1885[1]
Type species
P. signata
Peckham & Peckham, 1885
Species

9, see text

Species

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As of August 2019 it contains nine species, found in Central America, Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador, Brazil, and Mexico:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Pensacola Peckham & Peckham, 1885". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-08.
  2. ^ Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1885). "On some new genera and species of Attidae from the eastern part of Guatemala". Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 1885: 62–86.
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