- Marpissa (spider)
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Marpissa 
Marpissa muscosa Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Arachnida Order: Araneae Family: Salticidae Subfamily: Marpissinae Genus: Marpissa
C. L. Koch, 1846Type species Araneus muscosus
Clerck, 1757Species see text
Diversity species Marpissa is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).
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Name
The genus name is derived from Marpissa, an ancient Greek village.
Species
- Marpissa agricola (Peckham & Peckham, 1894) — Brazil
- Marpissa anusuae Tikader & Biswas, 1981 — India
- Marpissa arambagensis Biswas & Biswas, 1992 — India
- Marpissa armifera Urquhart, 1892 — New Zealand
- Marpissa bina (Hentz, 1846) — USA
- Marpissa bryantae (Jones, 1945) — USA
- Marpissa carinata Butt & Beg, 2000 — Pakistan
- Marpissa dayapurensis Majumder, 2004 — India
- Marpissa decorata Tikader, 1974 — India
- Marpissa dentoides Barnes, 1958 — USA
- Marpissa endenae Biswas & Biswas, 1992 — India
- Marpissa formosa (Banks, 1892) — USA
- Marpissa fornicis (Dyal, 1935) — Pakistan
- Marpissa gangasagarensis Majumder, 2005 — India
- Marpissa grata (Gertsch, 1936) — USA
- Marpissa hieroglyphica Taczanowski, 1878 — Peru
- Marpissa insignis Butt & Beg, 2000 — Pakistan
- Marpissa kalapani Tikader, 1977 — Andaman Islands
- Marpissa kalighatensis Biswas & Biswas, 1992 — India
- Marpissa lakshmikantapurensis Majumder, 2004 — India
- Marpissa lineata (C. L. Koch, 1846) — USA
- Marpissa linzhiensis Hu, 2001 — China
- Marpissa longiuscula (Simon, 1871) — Italy, Ukraine
- Marpissa manipuriensis Biswas & Biswas, 2004 — India
- Marpissa milleri (Peckham & Peckham, 1894) — Russia, China, Korea, Japan
- Marpissa minor F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1901 — Mexico to El Salvador
- Marpissa mirabilis Butt & Beg, 2000 — Pakistan
- Marpissa mizoramensis Biswas & Biswas, 2007 — India
- Marpissa muscosa (Clerck, 1757) — Palearctic
- Marpissa mystacina Taczanowski, 1878 — Peru
- Marpissa nitida Hu, 2001 — China
- Marpissa nivoyi (Lucas, 1846) — Palearctic
- Marpissa nutanae Biswas & Biswas, 1984 — India
- Marpissa obtusa Barnes, 1958 — USA
- Marpissa pikei (Peckham & Peckham, 1888) — USA, Cuba
- Marpissa pomatia (Walckenaer, 1802) — Palearctic
- Marpissa prathamae Biswas & Biswas, 1984 — India
- Marpissa proszynskii Biswas & Begum, 1999 — Bangladesh
- Marpissa pulla (Karsch, 1879) — Russia, China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan
- Marpissa radiata (Grube, 1859) — Palearctic
- Marpissa raimondi Taczanowski, 1878 — Peru
- Marpissa robusta (Banks, 1906) — USA
- Marpissa rubriceps Mello-Leitão, 1922 — Brazil
- Marpissa singhi Monga, Singh & Sadana, 1989 — India
- Marpissa soricina (Thorell, 1899) — Cameroon
- Marpissa sulcosa Barnes, 1958 — USA
- Marpissa tenebrosa Butt & Beg, 2000 — Pakistan
- Marpissa tigrina Tikader, 1965 — India
- Marpissa tikaderi Biswas, 1984 — India
- Marpissa zaitzevi Mcheidze, 1997 — Georgia
References
- Barnes, R.D. (1958): North American jumping spiders of the subfamily Marpissinae (Araneae, Salticidae). American Museum novitates 1867 PDF Abstract (Marpissa, Metacyrba, Menemerus, Maevia)
- Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.
External links
- Photograph of M. muscosa
- Photographs of M. muscosa and M. pomatia
- Photograph of M. nivoyi
- Picture of M. bina
- Awesome spiders: Photographs of the elongated M. pikei
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