Ashtabula (spider)

Ashtabula is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham in 1894.[2]

Ashtabula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Ashtabula
Peckham & Peckham, 1894[1]
Type species
A. zonura
Peckham & Peckham, 1894
Species

9, see text

Species

As of June 2019 it contains nine species, found in Central America, Colombia, Brazil, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Mexico:[1]

  • Ashtabula bicristata (Simon, 1901) – Venezuela
  • Ashtabula cuprea Mello-Leitão, 1946 – Uruguay
  • Ashtabula dentata F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 – Guatemala to Panama
  • Ashtabula dentichelis Simon, 1901 – Venezuela
  • Ashtabula furcillata Crane, 1949 – Venezuela
  • Ashtabula glauca Simon, 1901 – Mexico
  • Ashtabula montana Chickering, 1946 – Panama
  • Ashtabula sexguttata Simon, 1901 – Brazil
  • Ashtabula zonura Peckham & Peckham, 1894 (type) – Colombia
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References

  1. "Gen. Ashtabula Peckham & Peckham, 1894". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. 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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