Beata (spider) explained

Beata is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George Peckham & Elizabeth Peckham in 1895.^[1]

Species

it contains twenty-one species, found in Central America, North America, the Caribbean, Colombia, Paraguay, Argentina, Guyana, and Brazil:^[2]

• Beata aenea (Mello-Leitão, 1945) – Brazil, Argentina
• Beata blauveltae Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
• Beata cephalica F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 – 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. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Panama
• Beata lucida (Galiano, 1992) – Argentina
• Beata maccuni (Peckham & Peckham, 1895) – Panama to Brazil
• Beata magna Peckham & Peckham, 1895 (type) – Guatemala to Colombia
• Beata munda Chickering, 1946 – Panama
• Beata octopunctata (Peckham & Peckham, 1894) – St. Vincent
• Beata pernix (Peckham & Peckham, 1901) – Brazil
• Beata rustica (Peckham & Peckham, 1895) – Guatemala to Brazil
• Beata striata Petrunkevitch, 1925 – Panama
• Beata venusta Chickering, 1946 – Panama
• Beata wickhami (Peckham & Peckham, 1894) – USA, Bahama Is., Cuba
• Beata zeteki Chickering, 1946 – Panama

Notes and References

1. Peckham. G. W.. Peckham. E. G.. 1895. Spiders of the Homalattus group of the family Attidae. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 159–183. 2. George and Elizabeth Peckham. George and Elizabeth Peckham.
2. Gen. Beata Peckham & Peckham, 1895. 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.