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Zuniga (spider)

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Genus of spiders This article is about the genus of spiders. For other uses, see Zúñiga (disambiguation).

Zuniga
Female Zuniga sp. in Ecuador
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Zuniga
Peckham & Peckham, 1892
Type species
Z. laeta
(Peckham & Peckham, 1892)
Species
Synonyms

Zuniga is a genus of ant mimicking jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1892. As of September 2019 it contains two species, found in South America, Costa Rica, and Mexico: Z. laeta and Z. magna. It is a senior synonym of Arindas and Simprulloides.

References

  1. ^ Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Zuniga Peckham & Peckham, 1892". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
  2. ^ Galiano, M. E. (1964). "Salticidae (Araneae) formiciformes. II. Revisión del género Zuniga Peckham, 1892". Acta Zoologica Lilloana. 20: 69.
  3. ^ 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: 15.
  4. Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1892). "Ant-like spiders of the family Attidae". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 2 (1): 1–84.

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Taxon identifiers
Zuniga


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