Ashtabula (spider) explained

Ashtabula is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham in 1894.^[1]

Species

it contains nine species, found in Central America, Colombia, Brazil, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Mexico:^[2]

• Ashtabula bicristata (Simon, 1901) – Venezuela
• Ashtabula cuprea Mello-Leitão, 1946 – Uruguay
• Ashtabula dentata F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 – Guatemala to Panama
• Ashtabula dentichelis Simon, 1901 – Venezuela
• Ashtabula furcillata Crane, 1949 – Venezuela
• Ashtabula glauca Simon, 1901 – Mexico
• Ashtabula montana Chickering, 1946 – Panama
• Ashtabula sexguttata Simon, 1901 – Brazil
• Ashtabula zonura Peckham & Peckham, 1894 (type) – Colombia

Notes and References

1. Peckham. G. W.. Peckham. E. G.. 1894. Spiders of the Marptusa group. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 85–156. 2.
2. Gen. Ashtabula Peckham & Peckham, 1894. 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.