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Balmaceda (spider)

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Balmaceda
Balmaceda nigrosecta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Balmaceda
Peckham & Peckham, 1894[1]
Type species
B. picta
Peckham & Peckham, 1894
Species

11, see text

Balmaceda is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George Peckham & Elizabeth Peckham in 1894.[2]

Species

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As of June 2019 it contains eleven species, found in Central America, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Mexico:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Balmaceda Peckham & Peckham, 1894". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. ^ Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1894). "Spiders of the Marptusa group". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 2: 85–156.
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