Scopocira is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900.[4]
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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: | Scopocira Simon, 1900[1] |
| Type species | |
| S. dentichelis Simon, 1900
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| Species | |
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15, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Species
editAs of August 2019[update] it contains fifteen species, found in Central and South America and in the Caribbean:[1]
- Scopocira abaporu Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Trinidad, Bolivia
- Scopocira albertoi Galvis, 2015 – Colombia
- Scopocira bicornia Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Brazil
- Scopocira carinata Crane, 1945 – Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil
- Scopocira cepa Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Brazil
- Scopocira crotalica Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Colombia, Brazil
- Scopocira cyrili Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Guyana, French Guiana
- Scopocira dentichelis Simon, 1900 (type) – Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil
- Scopocira fuscimana (Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Brazil
- Scopocira histrio Simon, 1900 – Ecuador, Suriname, Brazil, Argentina
- Scopocira kunai Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Trinidad, Brazil
- Scopocira melanops (Taczanowski, 1871) – Brazil
- Scopocira pterodactyla Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Brazil
- Scopocira sciosciae Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Brazil
- Scopocira tenella Simon, 1900 – Colombia, French Guiana, Brazil
References
edit- ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Scopocira Simon, 1900". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ Galiano, M. E. (1981). "Catalogo de los especimenes tipicos de Salticidae (Araneae) descriptos por Candido F. de Mello-Leitão. Segunda parte". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales. 39: 12.
- ^ Galiano, M. E. (1958). "Novedades sobre los géneros Scopocira Simon y Gypogyna Simon (Araneae, Salticidae)". Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina. 20: 25.
- ^ 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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