Sidusa Explained

Sidusa is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1895.^[1]

Species

it contains twenty-six species, found in Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, and on Borneo:^[2]

Sidusa albopalpis (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901) – Jamaica
Sidusa angulitarsis Simon, 1902 – Brazil
Sidusa beebei (Petrunkevitch, 1914) – Borneo
Sidusa carinata Kraus, 1955 – El Salvador
Sidusa dominicana Petrunkevitch, 1914 – Dominican Rep.
Sidusa erythrocras (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936) – Panama
Sidusa femoralis Banks, 1909 – Costa Rica
Sidusa flavens (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1896) – Panama
Sidusa gratiosa G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1895 (type) – Brazil
Sidusa guianensis (Caporiacco, 1947) – Guyana
Sidusa inconspicua Bryant, 1940 – Cuba
Sidusa incurva (Chickering, 1946) – Panama
Sidusa marmorea F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 – Costa Rica, Panama
Sidusa nigrina F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 – Mexico
Sidusa obscura (Chickering, 1946) – Panama
Sidusa olivacea F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 – Guatemala
Sidusa pallida F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 – Guatemala
Sidusa perdita (Banks, 1898) – Mexico
Sidusa scintillans (Crane, 1943) – Venezuela
Sidusa seclusa (Chickering, 1946) – Panama
Sidusa stoneri Bryant, 1923 – Antigua and Barbuda (Antigua)
Sidusa subfusca (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900) – Costa Rica, Panama
Sidusa tarsalis Banks, 1909 – Costa Rica
Sidusa turquinensis Bryant, 1940 – Cuba
Sidusa unica Kraus, 1955 – El Salvador
Sidusa viridiaurea (Simon, 1902) – Peru, Brazil

Notes and References

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.
Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian. 2022. Gen. Sidusa Peckham & Peckham, 1895. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. World Spider Catalog Version 23.0. 24 February 2022.