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Genus of spiders For the famous pearl, see La Pelegrina pearl.

Pelegrina
Adult male Pelegrina pervaga
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Pelegrina
Franganillo, 1930
Type species
Dendryphantes proximus
Peckham & Peckham, 1901
Species

See text.

Diversity
38 species

Pelegrina is a spider genus of the family Salticidae (jumping spiders). They are found throughout North America. Many of the species in Pelegrina were previously placed in the genera Metaphidippus, and before that, Dendryphantes. The genus was originally described in 1930 by the Spanish arachnologist Pelegrín Franganillo Balboa, who named it after himself.

Species

As of July 2024, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:

References

  1. ^ "Gen. Pelegrina Franganillo, 1930", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2024-07-30
  2. Ubick, D.; Paquin, P.; Cushing, P.E.; Roth, V., eds. (2005). Spiders of North America: An Identification Manual. American Arachnological Society. p. 313. ISBN 978-0977143900.

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Taxon identifiers
Pelegrina


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