Chirothecia Explained

Chirothecia is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Władysław Taczanowski in 1878.^[1] Chirothecia is very similar to Bellota, but can be distinguished by the following characteristics: a much wider and taller cephalothorax (the width being 70–80% of the length and the height being 38–47% of the length); a much longer eye area (occupying 60–70% of the cephalothorax length); the posterior median eyes are always closer to the anterior lateral eyes than the posterior lateral eyes.^[2]

Species

it contains thirteen species, found only in South America and Panama:^[3]

• Chirothecia amazonica Simon, 1901 – Brazil
• Chirothecia botucatuensis Bauab, 1980 – Brazil
• Chirothecia clavimana (Taczanowski, 1871) (type) – Brazil, Guyana
• Chirothecia crassipes Taczanowski, 1878 – Peru
• Chirothecia daguerrei Galiano, 1972 – Argentina
• Chirothecia euchira (Simon, 1901) – Brazil, Argentina
• Chirothecia minima Mello-Leitão, 1943 – Argentina
• Chirothecia rosea (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Panama
• Chirothecia semiornata Simon, 1901 – Brazil
• Chirothecia soaresi Bauab, 1980 – Brazil
• Chirothecia soesilae Makhan, 2006 – Suriname
• Chirothecia uncata Soares & Camargo, 1948 – Brazil
• Chirothecia wrzesniowskii Taczanowski, 1878 – Ecuador

Notes and References

1. Taczanowski. L.. 1878. Les Aranéides du Pérou. Famille des Attides. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou. 278–374. 53. Władysław Taczanowski.
2. Galiano . María Elena . Salticidae (Araneae) formiciformes. XIII. Revisión del género Bellota Peckham, 1892 . Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales . 1972 . 31 . 83 . 463–484 . Buenos Aires . es.
3. Gen. Chirothecia Taczanowski, 1878. 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.