Peucetia

Peucetia is a genus of lynx spiders that is found worldwide.

Peucetia
Green Lynx Spider (P. viridans from Texas
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Oxyopidae
Genus:	Peucetia Thorell, 1869
Diversity
47 species

Malagasy green lynx spider (P. lucasi) and green bottle fly (Lucilia sp.)

Malagasy green lynx spider (P. madagascariensis) male

Malagasy green lynx spider (P. madagascariensis) female

While P. viridana is found only in India and Myanmar, the similar named P. viridans (Green Lynx Spider) occurs only from the southern United States to Venezuela.

The only Peucetia species to occur in the United States, apart from P. viridans (which occurs in the south from coast to coast) is P. longipalpis, which occurs in the southwestern US to Belize.

Species

• Peucetia akwadaensis
• Peucetia albescens
• Peucetia ananthakrishnani
• Peucetia arabica
• Peucetia ashae
• Peucetia betlaensis
• Peucetia biharensis
• Peucetia cayapa
• Peucetia choprai
• Peucetia crucifera
• Peucetia elegans
• Peucetia flava
• Peucetia formosensis
• Peucetia gauntleta
• Peucetia gerhardi
• Peucetia graminea
• Peucetia harishankarensis
• Peucetia jabalpurensis
• Peucetia ketani
• Peucetia latikae
• Peucetia lesserti
• Peucetia longipalpis
• Peucetia longipes
• Peucetia lucasi
• Peucetia macroglossa
• Peucetia maculifera
• Peucetia madagascariensis
• Peucetia madalenae
• Peucetia margaritata
• Peucetia myanmarensis
• Peucetia nicolae
• Peucetia pawani
• Peucetia procera
• Peucetia phantasma
• Peucetia pulchra
• Peucetia punjabensis
• Peucetia rajani
• Peucetia ranganathani
• Peucetia rubrolineata
• Peucetia striata
• Peucetia transvaalica
• Peucetia virescens
• Peucetia viridana
• Peucetia viridans
• Peucetia viridis
• Peucetia viveki
• Peucetia yogeshi

References

Media related to Peucetia at Wikimedia Commons

• Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.