Acragas (spider) explained

Acragas is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900.^[1] The name is derived from the Greek name of Agrigentum, an ancient city on Sicily.

Species

it contains twenty species, found only in Central America, South America, and Mexico:^[2]

• 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

Notes and References

1. Simon. E.. 1900. Etudes arachnologiques. 30e Mémoire. XLVII. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Attidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 27–61. 69. Eugène Simon.
2. Gen. Acragas Simon, 1900. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-07-05. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.