Peckhamia (spider) explained

Peckhamia is a genus of ant-mimicking jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900.^[1] It is named in honor of George and Elizabeth Peckham, and is considered a senior synonym of the genus Consingis.

Species

it contains nine species, found in North America, Central America, Suriname, Argentina, Brazil, and on Hispaniola:^[2]

• Peckhamia americana (Peckham & Peckham, 1892) – USA, Mexico, Hispaniola
• Peckhamia argentinensis Galiano, 1986 – Argentina
• Peckhamia picata (Hentz, 1846) – North America
• Peckhamia prescotti Chickering, 1946 – El Salvador, Panama
• Peckhamia scorpionia (Hentz, 1846) (type) – USA, Canada
• Peckhamia semicana (Simon, 1900) – Brazil, Argentina
• Peckhamia seminola Gertsch, 1936 – USA (Florida)
• Peckhamia soesilae Makhan, 2006 – Suriname
• Peckhamia variegata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900) – Panama

External links

• Painting of P. prescotti
• Pictures of P. americana

Notes and References

1. Simon. E.. 1900. Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 381–407. 44. Eugène Simon.
2. Gen. Peckhamia Simon, 1900. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-09-08. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.