Zuniga is a genus of ant mimicking jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1892.[4] As of September 2019[update] it contains two species, found in South America, Costa Rica, and Mexico: Z. laeta and Z. magna.[1] It is a senior synonym of Arindas[2] and Simprulloides.[3]
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| Female Zuniga sp. in Ecuador | |
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: | Zuniga Peckham & Peckham, 1892[1] |
| Type species | |
| Z. laeta (Peckham & Peckham, 1892)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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References
edit- ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Zuniga Peckham & Peckham, 1892". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
- ^ a b Galiano, M. E. (1964). "Salticidae (Araneae) formiciformes. II. Revisión del género Zuniga Peckham, 1892". Acta Zoologica Lilloana. 20: 69.
- ^ a b 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: 15.
- ^ Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1892). "Ant-like spiders of the family Attidae". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 2 (1): 1–84.
External links
edit- Photo of Zuniga from Costa Rica by Lisa Taylor, Arizona State University
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