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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Scopocira Simon, 1900 |
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| S. dentichelis Simon, 1900 | |
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Scopocira is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900.
Species
As of August 2019 it contains fifteen species, found in Central and South America and in the Caribbean:
- Scopocira abaporu Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Trinidad, Bolivia
- Scopocira albertoi Galvis, 2015 – Colombia
- Scopocira bicornia Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Brazil
- Scopocira carinata Crane, 1945 – Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil
- Scopocira cepa Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Brazil
- Scopocira crotalica Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Colombia, Brazil
- Scopocira cyrili Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Guyana, French Guiana
- Scopocira dentichelis Simon, 1900 (type) – Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil
- Scopocira fuscimana (Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Brazil
- Scopocira histrio Simon, 1900 – Ecuador, Suriname, Brazil, Argentina
- Scopocira kunai Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Trinidad, Brazil
- Scopocira melanops (Taczanowski, 1871) – Brazil
- Scopocira pterodactyla Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Brazil
- Scopocira sciosciae Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Brazil
- Scopocira tenella Simon, 1900 – Colombia, French Guiana, Brazil
References
- ^ Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Scopocira Simon, 1900". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- Galiano, M. E. (1981). "Catalogo de los especimenes tipicos de Salticidae (Araneae) descriptos por Candido F. de Mello-Leitão. Segunda parte". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales. 39: 12.
- Galiano, M. E. (1958). "Novedades sobre los géneros Scopocira Simon y Gypogyna Simon (Araneae, Salticidae)". Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina. 20: 25.
- Simon, E. (1900). "Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 44: 381–407.
External links
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