Popcornella is a genus of Caribbean jumping spiders that was first described by J. X. Zhang & Wayne Paul Maddison in 2012.[2]
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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: | Popcornella Zhang & Maddison, 2012[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. spiniformis Zhang & Maddison, 2012
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Species
editAs of August 2019[update] it contains four species, found only in Puerto Rico and on Hispaniola:[1]
- Popcornella furcata Zhang & Maddison, 2012 – Hispaniola
- Popcornella nigromaculata Zhang & Maddison, 2012 – Puerto Rico
- Popcornella spiniformis Zhang & Maddison, 2012 (type) – Hispaniola
- Popcornella yunque Zhang & Maddison, 2012 – Puerto Rico
References
edit- ^ a b "Gen. Popcornella Zhang & Maddison, 2012". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
- ^ Zhang, J. X.; Maddison, W. P. (2012). "New euophryine jumping spiders from the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae)". Zootaxa. 3476: 1–54. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3476.1.1.
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