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Genus of spiders
This article is about a genus of spiders. For other uses, see
Acragas .
Acragas is a
genus of
jumping spiders that was first described by
Eugène Louis Simon in 1900.
[2] The name is derived from the
Greek name of
Agrigentum , an ancient city on
Sicily .
As of June 2019
[update] it contains twenty species, found only in Central America, South America, and
Mexico :
[1]
Acragas carinatus Crane, 1943 – Venezuela
Acragas castaneiceps Simon, 1900 – Brazil
Acragas erythraeus Simon, 1900 – Brazil
Acragas fallax (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Panama
Acragas hieroglyphicus (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Mexico to Panama
Acragas humaitae Bauab & Soares, 1978 – Brazil
Acragas humilis Simon, 1900 – Brazil
Acragas leucaspis Simon, 1900 – Venezuela
Acragas longimanus Simon, 1900 (
type ) – Brazil
Acragas longipalpus (Peckham & Peckham, 1885) – Guatemala
Acragas mendax Bauab & Soares, 1978 – Brazil
Acragas miniaceus Simon, 1900 – Peru, Brazil
Acragas nigromaculatus (
Mello-Leitão , 1922) – Brazil
Acragas pacatus (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Central America
Acragas peckhami (
Chickering , 1946) – Panama
Acragas procalvus Simon, 1900 – Peru
Acragas quadriguttatus (
F. O. Pickard-Cambridge , 1901) – Mexico to Panama
Acragas rosenbergi Simon, 1901 – Ecuador
Acragas trimaculatus Mello-Leitão, 1917 – Brazil
Acragas zeteki (Chickering, 1946) – Panama
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b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019).
"Gen. Acragas Simon, 1900" . World Spider Catalog Version 20.0 . Natural History Museum Bern.
doi :
10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-05 .
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Simon, E. (1900). "Etudes arachnologiques. 30e Mémoire. XLVII. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Attidae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France . 69 : 27–61.