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Genus of spiders
Mexcala is a
genus of
jumping spiders that was first described by
George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1902.
[2] The name is probably derived from the
Nahuatl
mezcal.
As of June 2019
[update] it contains twenty-one species, found only in Africa,
Yemen, and
Iran:
[1]
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Mexcala agilis Lawrence, 1928 –
Congo,
Kenya,
Malawi,
Tanzania,
Namibia
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Mexcala angolensis
Wesolowska, 2009 –
Angola
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Mexcala caerulea (
Simon, 1901) –
West Africa
-
Mexcala elegans Peckham & Peckham, 1903 – Ivory Coast, Malawi, Namibia,
Botswana,
Zimbabwe,
South Africa
-
Mexcala farsensis Logunov, 2001 –
Iran
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Mexcala fizi Wesolowska, 2009 – Congo, Tanzania
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Mexcala formosa Wesolowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 –
Ethiopia
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Mexcala kabondo Wesolowska, 2009 – Congo, Malawi, Tanzania
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Mexcala macilenta Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 – Ethiopia, Tanzania
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Mexcala meridiana Wesolowska, 2009 – South Africa
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Mexcala monstrata Wesolowska & van Harten, 1994 –
Egypt,
Yemen
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Mexcala namibica Wesolowska, 2009 – Namibia
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Mexcala nigrocyanea (Simon, 1886) –
Libya, Egypt, Ethiopia
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Mexcala ovambo Wesolowska, 2009 – Namibia
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Mexcala quadrimaculata (Lawrence, 1942) – Zimbabwe, South Africa
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Mexcala rufa Peckham & Peckham, 1902 (
type) – Namibia, South Africa
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Mexcala signata Wesolowska, 2009 – Kenya, Tanzania
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Mexcala smaragdina Wesolowska & Edwards, 2012 –
Nigeria
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Mexcala synagelese Wesolowska, 2009 –
Sudan, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Congo, Angola
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Mexcala torquata Wesolowska, 2009 – Ivory Coast,
Guinea
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Mexcala vicina Wesolowska, 2009 –
Cameroon, Congo