Chira is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George Peckham & Elizabeth Peckham in 1896.[5] It is currently named after Rio Chira, a river in Peru, but the Peckhams originally called the genus Shira, later emended by Eugène Simon.

Chira
Chira lucina
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Chira
Peckham & Peckham, 1896[1]
Type species
C. trivittata
(Taczanowski, 1871)
Species

13, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

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As of June 2019 it contains thirteen species, found only in South America, Guatemala, and Honduras:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Chira Peckham & Peckham, 1896". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. ^ Galiano, M. E. (1968). "Adiciones a la revision del género Chira Peckham, 1896 (Araneae, Salticidae)". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales. 27: 350.
  3. ^ Galiano, M. E. (1980). "Catalogo de los especimenes tipicos de Salticidae (Araneae) descriptos por Candido F. de Mello-Leitão. Primera parte". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales. 39: 37.
  4. ^ a b Galiano, M. E. (1961). "Un género de Salticidae (Araneae), nuevo para la Argentina: Alcimonotus Simon, 1902". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales. 21: 322.
  5. ^ Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1896). "Spiders of the family Attidae from Central America and Mexico". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 3: 1–101.
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