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Mendoza (spider)

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Mendoza
Mendoza elongata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Mendoza
Peckham & Peckham, 1894[1]
Type species
M. canestrinii
(Ninni, 1868)
Species

9, see text

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

Species

As of June 2019 it contains nine species, found only in Africa, Asia, and Europe:[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Gen. Mendoza Peckham & Peckham, 1894". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
  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.