Pensacola is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1885.[2]
| Pensacola | |
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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: | Pensacola Peckham & Peckham, 1885[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. signata Peckham & Peckham, 1885
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| Species | |
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9, see text | |
Species edit
As of August 2019[update] it contains nine species, found in Central America, Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador, Brazil, and Mexico:[1]
- Pensacola castanea Simon, 1902 – Brazil
- Pensacola cyaneochirus Simon, 1902 – Ecuador
- Pensacola gaujoni Simon, 1902 – Ecuador
- Pensacola murina Simon, 1902 – Brazil, Guyana
- Pensacola ornata Simon, 1902 – Brazil
- Pensacola poecilocilia Caporiacco, 1955 – Venezuela
- Pensacola radians (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Panama
- Pensacola signata Peckham & Peckham, 1885 (type) – Guatemala
- Pensacola sylvestris (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Mexico, Guatemala
References edit
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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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