Sarinda (spider)

Sarinda
Male Sarinda hentzi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Sarinda Peckham & Peckham, 1892
Type species
Sarinda nigra Peckham & Peckham, 1892
Species
See text
Diversity
17 species

Sarinda is a genus of ant-like jumping spiders.

Species occur in the Americas from Argentina to the southern United States.

Name

Sarinda is an Indian traditional musical instrument.

Species

• Sarinda armata (Peckham & Peckham, 1892) – Panama to Peru
• Sarinda atrata (Taczanowski, 1871) – French Guiana
• Sarinda capibarae Galiano, 1967 – Brazil
• Sarinda cayennensis (Taczanowski, 1871) – Brazil, French Guiana
• Sarinda chacoensis Galiano, 1996 – Argentina
• Sarinda cutleri (Richman, 1965) – United States
• Sarinda exilis (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil
• Sarinda glabra Franganillo, 1930 – Cuba
• Sarinda hentzi (Banks, 1913) – USA
• Sarinda imitans Galiano, 1965 – Argentina
• Sarinda longula (Taczanowski, 1871) – French Guiana
• Sarinda marcosi Piza, 1937 – Brazil, Argentina
• Sarinda nigra Peckham & Peckham, 1892 – Nicaragua, Brazil, Guyana, Argentina
• Sarinda panamae Galiano, 1965 – Panama
• Sarinda pretiosa Banks, 1909 – Costa Rica
• Sarinda ruficeps (Simon, 1901) – Colombia
• Sarinda silvatica Chickering, 1946 – Panama

References

• Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.

Further reading

• Johnson, S.R. (1995): Observations of habitat use by Sarinda hentzi (Araneae, Salticidae) in northeastern Kansas. Journal of Arachnology 23: 71-74. PDF

External links

• Photographs of Sarinda species
• Painting of S. hentzi
• Picture of S. hentzi
• Picture of a Sarinda sp.
• Pictures of male and female S. cutleri