Parnaenus

Genus of spiders

Parnaenus
Parnaenus cyanidens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Parnaenus
Peckham & Peckham, 1896[1]
Type species
P. cyanidens
(C. L. Koch, 1846)
Species
  • P. cuspidatus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 – Guatemala, El Salvador
  • P. cyanidens (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Guatemala to Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Guyana
  • P. metallicus (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Brazil, Argentina

Parnaenus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1896.[2] As of August 2019[update] it contains only three species, found only in South America, El Salvador, and Guatemala: P. cuspidatus, P. cyanidens, and P. metallicus.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Parnaenus Peckham & Peckham, 1896". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-08.
  2. ^ Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1896). "Spiders of the family Attidae from Central America and Mexico". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 3: 1–101.
  • Photographs of Parnaenus species
  • Pictures of P. cyanidens
Taxon identifiers
Parnaenus


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