Peckhamia

Peckhamia

Taxobox
name = "Peckhamia"


image_caption =
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
familia = Salticidae
subfamilia = Synagelinae
tribus = Peckhamiini
genus = "Peckhamia"
genus_authority = Simon, 1901
diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Peckhamia
diversity = 7 species
type_species = "Synemosyna scorpionia"
type_species_authority = Hentz, 1846
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range_map_width = 250px
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = see text

"Peckhamia" is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).

Name

The genus is named in honor of George and Elizabeth Peckham, who identified many salticids at the time.

pecies

* "Peckhamia americana" (Peckham & Peckham, 1892) — USA, Mexico
* "Peckhamia argentinensis" Galiano, 1986 — Argentina
* "Peckhamia picata" (Hentz, 1846) — USA, Canada
* "Peckhamia prescotti" Chickering, 1946 — El Salvador, Panama
* "Peckhamia scorpionia" (Hentz, 1846) — USA, Canada
* "Peckhamia seminola" Gertsch, 1936 — USA
* "Peckhamia variegata" (F. O. P-Cambridge, 1900) — Panama

There is a recently described species "Peckhamia soesilae" Makhan, 2006 from Surinam.

References

* (2008): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.5. "American Museum of Natural History".

External links

* [http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/peckhami/presc-ol.htm Painting of "P. prescotti"]
* [http://www.miiz.waw.pl/salticid/diagnost/peckhami/ameri-gb.htm Pictures of "P. americana"]


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