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 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]

Zuniga
Female Zuniga sp. in Ecuador
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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)
Species
Synonyms[1]

References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b Galiano, M. E. (1964). "Salticidae (Araneae) formiciformes. II. Revisión del género Zuniga Peckham, 1892". Acta Zoologica Lilloana. 20: 69.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.
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