Paradamoetas
| Paradamoetas | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Paradamoetas Peckham & Peckham, 1885[1] |
| Type species | |
| P. formicinus Peckham & Peckham, 1885
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| Species | |
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Paradamoetas is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1885.[2] The name is a combination of the Ancient Greek "para" (παρά), meaning "alongside", and the salticid genus Damoetas.
Species[edit]
As of June 2023[update] it contains four species, found in Canada, the United States, Mexico and across parts of Central America:[1]
- Paradamoetas carus (Peckham & Peckham, 1892) – Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador
- Paradamoetas changuinola Cutler, 1982 – Panama
- Paradamoetas fontanus (Levi, 1951) – USA, Canada
- Paradamoetas formicinus Peckham & Peckham, 1885 (type) – USA, Mexico, Guatemala to Nicaragua
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Gen. Paradamoetas Peckham & Peckham, 1885". World Spider Catalog Version 24.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2023. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2023-06-22.
- ^ Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1885). "On some new genera and species of Attidae from the eastern part of Guatemala". Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 1885: 62–86.
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