Nycerella

Nycerella is a genus of spiders of the jumping spider family, Salticidae.

Nycerella
Nycerella delecta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Nycerella
Galiano, 1982[1]
Type species
Cyrene decorata
Peckham & Peckham, 1893
Species

See text

Diversity
8 species
Synonyms
  • Cyrene Peckham & Peckham

The genus was renamed from Cyrene Peckham & Peckham, 1893, because the name was preoccupied.

Species

As of June 2017, the World Spider Catalog lists the following species in the genus:[1]

  • Nycerella aprica (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
  • Nycerella decorata (Peckham & Peckham, 1893) – Panama, Colombia, St. Vincent
  • Nycerella delecta (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Mexico to Panama
  • Nycerella donaldi (Chickering, 1946) – Panama
  • Nycerella melanopygia Galiano, 1982 – Brazil
  • Nycerella neglecta Galiano, 1982 – Panama to Ecuador
  • Nycerella sanguinea (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Guatemala to Panama
  • Nycerella volucripes Galiano, 1982 – Brazil, Peru

References
  1. World Spider Catalog (2017). "Gen. Nycerella Galiano, 1982". World Spider Catalog. 18.0. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 26 June 2017.


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