Acragas (spider)
| Acragas | |
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| Female Acragas longimanus in Ecuador | |
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: | Acragas Simon, 1900[1] |
| Type species | |
| A. longimanus Simon, 1900
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| Species | |
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20, see text | |
Acragas is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900.[2] The name is derived from the Greek name of Agrigentum, an ancient city on Sicily.
Species[edit]
As of June 2019[update] it contains twenty species, found only in Central America, South America, and Mexico:[1]
- Acragas carinatus Crane, 1943 – Venezuela
- Acragas castaneiceps Simon, 1900 – Brazil
- Acragas erythraeus Simon, 1900 – Brazil
- Acragas fallax (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Panama
- Acragas hieroglyphicus (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Mexico to Panama
- Acragas humaitae Bauab & Soares, 1978 – Brazil
- Acragas humilis Simon, 1900 – Brazil
- Acragas leucaspis Simon, 1900 – Venezuela
- Acragas longimanus Simon, 1900 (type) – Brazil
- Acragas longipalpus (Peckham & Peckham, 1885) – Guatemala
- Acragas mendax Bauab & Soares, 1978 – Brazil
- Acragas miniaceus Simon, 1900 – Peru, Brazil
- Acragas nigromaculatus (Mello-Leitão, 1922) – Brazil
- Acragas pacatus (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Central America
- Acragas peckhami (Chickering, 1946) – Panama
- Acragas procalvus Simon, 1900 – Peru
- Acragas quadriguttatus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico to Panama
- Acragas rosenbergi Simon, 1901 – Ecuador
- Acragas trimaculatus Mello-Leitão, 1917 – Brazil
- Acragas zeteki (Chickering, 1946) – Panama
References[edit]
- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Acragas Simon, 1900". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
- ^ Simon, E. (1900). "Etudes arachnologiques. 30e Mémoire. XLVII. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Attidae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 69: 27–61.
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