Mexcala

Mexcala
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Subkingdom:	Eumetazoa
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Section:	Dionycha
Superfamily:	Salticoidea
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Synagelinae
Genus:	Mexcala Peckham & Peckham, 1902
Type species
Mexcala rufa Peckham & Peckham, 1902
Species
see text
Diversity
8 species

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

Name

The genus name is probably derived from the Nahuatl mezcal.

Species

• Mexcala agilis Lawrence, 1928 — Namibia
• Mexcala elegans Peckham & Peckham, 1903 — Southern Africa
• Mexcala farsensis Logunov, 2001 — Iran
• Mexcala formosa Wesolowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 — Ethiopia
• Mexcala macilenta Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 — Tanzania
• Mexcala monstrata Wesolowska & van Harten, 1994 — Yemen
• Mexcala natalensis (Lawrence, 1942) — Southern Africa
• Mexcala rufa Peckham & Peckham, 1902 — South Africa

References

• Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.

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