Messua (genus)

Taxobox
name = "Messua"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
familia = Salticidae
subfamilia = Dendryphantinae
tribus = Zygoballini
genus = "Messua"
genus_authority = Peckham & Peckham, 1896
diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Messua
diversity = 11 species
type_species = "Messua desidiosa"
type_species_authority = Peckham & Peckham, 1896
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"Messua" is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).

Name

The genus name is derived from Messua, a female character from Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book. Other salticid genera with names of Kipling's characters are "Akela", "Bagheera" and "Nagaina".

pecies

* "Messua centralis" (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) — Panama
* "Messua dentigera" (F. O. P-Cambridge, 1901) — Guatemala to Panama
* "Messua desidiosa" Peckham & Peckham, 1896 — Costa Rica, Panama
* "Messua donalda" (Kraus, 1955) — El Salvador
* "Messua latior" (Roewer, 1955) — Panama
* "Messua laxa" (Chickering, 1946) — Panama
* "Messua limbata" (Banks, 1898) — USA, Mexico
* "Messua moma" (F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1901) — Guatemala to Guyana
* "Messua octonotata" (F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1901) — Central America
* "Messua pura" (Bryant, 1948) — Mexico
* "Messua tridentata" (F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1901) — Mexico