- Peucetia
Taxobox
name = "Peucetia"
image_caption = "P. viridana" from India
image_width = 250px
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropoda
classis =Arachnida
ordo =Araneae
subordo =Araneomorphae
familia =Oxyopidae
genus = "Peucetia"
genus_authority = Thorell,1869
diversity_link = List of Oxyopidae species#Peucetia
diversity = 44 species
range_
range_map_width = 250px
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "P. longipalpis"
"P. viridana"
"P. viridans"
"many more""Peucetia" is a genus of spiders that is found worldwide.
While "P. viridana" is found only in
India andMyanmar , the similar named "P. viridans" (theGreen lynx spider ) occurs only from the southernUSA toVenezuela .The only "Peucetia" species to occur in the United States, apart from "P. viridans" (which occurs in the south from coast to coast) is "P. longipalpis", which occurs in the southwestern US to
Belize .
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