Eustiromastix Explained

Eustiromastix is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.^[1]

Species

it contains fourteen species, found in South America, on Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and in Panama:^[2]

• Eustiromastix bahiensis Galiano, 1979 – Brazil
• Eustiromastix efferatus Bauab & Soares, 1978 – Brazil
• Eustiromastix falcatus Galiano, 1981 – Trinidad, French Guiana, Brazil
• Eustiromastix frontalis (Banks, 1929) – Panama
• Eustiromastix guianae Caporiacco, 1954 – French Guiana
• Eustiromastix intermedius Galiano, 1979 – Venezuela
• Eustiromastix keyserlingi (Taczanowski, 1878) – Peru
• Eustiromastix macropalpus Galiano, 1979 – Brazil
• Eustiromastix major Simon, 1902 – French Guiana, Brazil
• Eustiromastix moraballi Mello-Leitão, 1940 – Venezuela, Guyana
• Eustiromastix nativo Santos & Romero, 2004 – Brazil
• Eustiromastix obscurus (Peckham & Peckham, 1894) (type) – St. Vincent
• Eustiromastix spinipes (Taczanowski, 1871) – Peru to Guyana
• Eustiromastix vincenti (Peckham & Peckham, 1894) – St. Vincent

External links

• Photographs of Eustiromastix species from Brazil

Notes and References

1. Simon. E.. 1902. Etudes arachnologiques. 31e Mémoire. LI. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Salticidae (suite). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 389–421. 71. Eugène Simon.
2. Gen. Eustiromastix Simon, 1902. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-07-07. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.