Descanso (spider)

Descanso is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1892.[2] The name is derived from Spanish descanso, meaning "resting place (of a dead person)", from the verb descansar "to (have a) rest."

This article is about a genus of spiders. For other uses, see Descanso.

Descanso
Temporal range: Neogene– Present
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Descanso
Peckham & Peckham, 1892[1]
Type species
D. vagus
Peckham & Peckham, 1892
Species

10, see text

Species

As of June 2019 it contains ten species, found in Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Panama, and on Hispaniola:[1]

  • Descanso chapoda Peckham & Peckham, 1892 – Brazil
  • Descanso discicollis (Taczanowski, 1878) – Peru
  • Descanso formosus Bryant, 1943 – Hispaniola
  • Descanso insolitus Chickering, 1946 – Panama
  • Descanso magnus Bryant, 1943 – Hispaniola
  • Descanso montanus Bryant, 1943 – Hispaniola
  • Descanso peregrinus Chickering, 1946 – Panama, Colombia
  • Descanso sobrius Galiano, 1986 – Brazil
  • Descanso vagus Peckham & Peckham, 1892 (type) – Brazil
  • Descanso ventrosus Galiano, 1986 – Brazil

References
  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Descanso Peckham & Peckham, 1892". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-07.
  2. 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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