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Genus of spiders
This article is about a genus of spiders. For Native American leader, see
Sassacus .
Sassacus is a
genus of
jumping spiders that was first described by
George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1895.
[4] It is likely named after
Sassacus , a Native American chief of the 16th and 17th century.
As of August 2019
[update] it contains twenty-one species, found in North America, South America,
Panama , and
Costa Rica :
[1]
Sassacus alboguttatus (
F. O. Pickard-Cambridge , 1901) –
Mexico
Sassacus arcuatus
Simon , 1901 –
Brazil
Sassacus aurantiacus Simon, 1901 – Brazil
Sassacus aztecus Richman, 2008 – Mexico
Sassacus barbipes (Peckham & Peckham, 1888) – Mexico to Costa Rica
Sassacus biaccentuatus Simon, 1901 –
Paraguay
Sassacus cyaneus (
Hentz , 1846) – USA
Sassacus dissimilis
Mello-Leitão , 1941 –
Argentina
Sassacus flavicinctus Crane, 1949 –
Venezuela
Sassacus glyphochelis Bauab, 1979 – Brazil
Sassacus helenicus (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil
Sassacus leucomystax (
Caporiacco , 1947) –
Guyana
Sassacus lirios Richman, 2008 – Mexico to Costa Rica
Sassacus ocellatus Crane, 1949 – Venezuela
Sassacus paiutus (
Gertsch , 1934) – USA, Mexico
Sassacus papenhoei Peckham & Peckham, 1895 (
type ) –
North America
Sassacus resplendens Simon, 1901 – Venezuela
Sassacus samalayucae Richman, 2008 – Mexico
Sassacus sexspinosus (Caporiacco, 1955) – Venezuela
Sassacus trochilus Simon, 1901 – Brazil
Sassacus vitis (Cockerell, 1894) – Canada to Panama
^
a
b
c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019).
"Gen. Sassacus Peckham & Peckham, 1895" . World Spider Catalog Version 20.0 . Natural History Museum Bern.
doi :
10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-09-23 .
^ Richman, D. B. (2008).
"Revision of the jumping spider genus Sassacus (Araneae, Salticidae, Dendryphantinae) in North America" (PDF) . Journal of Arachnology . 36 : 27.
doi :
10.1636/H07-03.1 .
ISSN
0161-8202 .
S2CID
83998396 .
^ Bauab V., M. J.; Soares, B. A. M. (1982). "Contribuição ao estudo dos Salticidae (Araneae) do Brasil. IX". Revista Brasileira de Entomologia . 26 : 89.
^
Peckham, G. W. ;
Peckham, E. G. (1895). "Spiders of the Homalattus group of the family Attidae". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin . 2 : 159–183.