Beata (spider)

Beata
Adult male Beata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Beata Peckham & Peckham, 1895
Type species
Beata magna Peckham & Peckham, 1895
Species
See text.
Diversity
21 species

Beata is a genus of jumping spiders found in North and South America.

Species

• Beata aenea (Mello-Leitão, 1945) – Brazil, Argentina
• Beata blauveltae Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
• Beata cephalica F. O. P-Cambridge – Panama
• Beata cinereonitida Simon, 1902 – Brazil
• Beata fausta (Peckham & Peckham, 1901) – Brazil
• Beata germaini Simon, 1902 – Brazil, Paraguay
• Beata hispida (Peckham & Peckham, 1901) – Mexico
• Beata inconcinna (Peckham & Peckham, 1895) – Trinidad
• Beata jubata (C. L. Koch, 1846) – St. Thomas
• Beata longipes (F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1901) – Panama
• Beata lucida (Galiano, 1992) – Argentina
• Beata maccuni (Peckham & Peckham, 1895) – Panama to Brazil
• Beata magna Peckham & Peckham, 1895 – Guatemala to Colombia
• Beata munda Chickering, 1946 – Panama
• Beata octopunctata (Peckham & Peckham, 1893) – St. Vincent
• Beata pernix (Peckham & Peckham, 1901) – Brazil
• Beata rustica (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Guatemala to Brazil
• Beata striata Petrunkevitch, 1925 – Panama
• Beata venusta Chickering, 1946 – Panama
• Beata wickhami (Peckham & Peckham, 1894) – United States, Bahama Islands, Cuba
• Beata zeteki Chickering, 1946 – Panama

External links

• Photographs of two Beata species from Brazil
• Picture of B. maccuni

References

• Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.