Sassacus (spider) explained

Sassacus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1895.^[1] It is likely named after Sassacus, a Native American chief of the 16th and 17th century.

Species

it contains twenty-one species, found in North America, South America, Panama, and Costa Rica:^[2]

• Sassacus alboguttatus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico
• Sassacus arcuatus Simon, 1901 – Brazil
• Sassacus aurantiacus Simon, 1901 – Brazil
• Sassacus aztecus Richman, 2008 – Mexico
• Sassacus barbipes (Peckham & Peckham, 1888) – Mexico to Costa Rica
• Sassacus biaccentuatus Simon, 1901 – Paraguay
• Sassacus cyaneus (Hentz, 1846) – USA
• Sassacus dissimilis Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Argentina
• Sassacus flavicinctus Crane, 1949 – Venezuela
• Sassacus glyphochelis Bauab, 1979 – Brazil
• Sassacus helenicus (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil
• Sassacus leucomystax (Caporiacco, 1947) – Guyana
• Sassacus lirios Richman, 2008 – Mexico to Costa Rica
• Sassacus ocellatus Crane, 1949 – Venezuela
• Sassacus paiutus (Gertsch, 1934) – USA, Mexico
• Sassacus papenhoei Peckham & Peckham, 1895 (type) – North America
• Sassacus resplendens Simon, 1901 – Venezuela
• Sassacus samalayucae Richman, 2008 – Mexico
• Sassacus sexspinosus (Caporiacco, 1955) – Venezuela
• Sassacus trochilus Simon, 1901 – Brazil
• Sassacus vitis (Cockerell, 1894) – Canada to Panama

External links

• Pictures of P. papenhoei

Notes and References

1. Peckham. G. W.. Peckham. E. G.. 1895. Spiders of the Homalattus group of the family Attidae. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 159–183. 2. George and Elizabeth Peckham. George and Elizabeth Peckham.
2. Gen. Sassacus Peckham & Peckham, 1895. 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.