Pensacola (spider) explained

Pensacola is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1885.^[1]

Species

it contains nine species, found in Central America, Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador, Brazil, and Mexico:^[2]

• Pensacola castanea Simon, 1902 – Brazil
• Pensacola cyaneochirus Simon, 1902 – Ecuador
• Pensacola gaujoni Simon, 1902 – Ecuador
• Pensacola murina Simon, 1902 – Brazil, Guyana
• Pensacola ornata Simon, 1902 – Brazil
• Pensacola poecilocilia Caporiacco, 1955 – Venezuela
• Pensacola radians (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Panama
• Pensacola signata Peckham & Peckham, 1885 (type) – Guatemala
• Pensacola sylvestris (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Mexico, Guatemala

External links

• Diagnostic drawings of Pensacola species

Notes and References

1. Peckham. G. W.. Peckham. E. G.. 1885. On some new genera and species of Attidae from the eastern part of Guatemala. Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 62–86. 1885. George and Elizabeth Peckham. George and Elizabeth Peckham.
2. Gen. Pensacola Peckham & Peckham, 1885. 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.