Balmaceda (spider) explained

Balmaceda is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George Peckham & Elizabeth Peckham in 1894.^[1]

Species

it contains eleven species, found in Central America, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Mexico:^[2]

• Balmaceda abba Edwards & Baert, 2018 – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
• Balmaceda anulipes Soares, 1942 – Brazil
• Balmaceda biteniata Mello-Leitão, 1922 – Brazil
• Balmaceda chickeringi Roewer, 1951 – Panama
• Balmaceda distans (Banks, 1924) – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
• Balmaceda minor (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico to El Salvador
• Balmaceda nigrosecta Mello-Leitão, 1945 – Colombia, Argentina
• Balmaceda picta Peckham & Peckham, 1894 (type) – Guatemala to Colombia
• Balmaceda reducta Chickering, 1946 – Panama
• Balmaceda turneri Chickering, 1946 – Panama
• Balmaceda vera Mello-Leitão, 1917 – Brazil

External links

• Photographs of Balmaceda species from Brazil

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. George and Elizabeth Peckham. George and Elizabeth Peckham.
2. Gen. Balmaceda 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.