Sarinda (spider) explained

Sarinda is a genus of ant mimicking jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1892.^[1]

Species

it contains seventeen species, found in the Americas from Argentina to the southern United States and on the Greater Antilles:^[2]

• Sarinda armata (Peckham & Peckham, 1892) – Panama to Peru
• Sarinda atrata (Taczanowski, 1871) – French Guiana
• Sarinda capibarae Galiano, 1967 – Brazil
• Sarinda cayennensis (Taczanowski, 1871) – Brazil, French Guiana
• Sarinda chacoensis Galiano, 1996 – Argentina
• Sarinda cutleri (Richman, 1965) – USA, Mexico
• Sarinda exilis (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil
• Sarinda glabra Franganillo, 1930 – Cuba
• Sarinda hentzi (Banks, 1913) – USA
• Sarinda imitans Galiano, 1965 – Argentina
• Sarinda longula (Taczanowski, 1871) – French Guiana
• Sarinda marcosi Piza, 1937 – Brazil, Argentina
• Sarinda nigra Peckham & Peckham, 1892 (type) – Nicaragua, Brazil, Guyana, Argentina
• Sarinda panamae Galiano, 1965 – Panama
• Sarinda pretiosa Banks, 1909 – Costa Rica
• Sarinda ruficeps (Simon, 1901) – Colombia
• Sarinda silvatica Chickering, 1946 – Panama

External links

• Photographs of Sarinda species
• Painting of S. hentzi
• Picture of S. hentzi
• Picture of a Sarinda sp.
• Pictures of male and female S. cutleri

Notes and References

1. Peckham. G. W.. Peckham. E. G.. 1892. Ant-like spiders of the family Attidae. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 1–84. 2. 1. George and Elizabeth Peckham. George and Elizabeth Peckham.
2. Gen. Sarinda Peckham & Peckham, 1892. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-09-23. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.