Acragas (spider)

Acragas is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900.[2] The name is derived from the Greek name of Agrigentum, an ancient city on Sicily.

Acragas
Female Acragas longimanus in Ecuador
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Acragas Simon, 1900[1]
Type species
A. longimanus Simon, 1900
Species
20, see text

Species

As of June 2019 it contains twenty species, found only in Central America, South America, and Mexico:[1]

• Acragas carinatus Crane, 1943 – Venezuela
• Acragas castaneiceps Simon, 1900 – Brazil
• Acragas erythraeus Simon, 1900 – Brazil
• Acragas fallax (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Panama
• Acragas hieroglyphicus (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Mexico to Panama
• Acragas humaitae Bauab & Soares, 1978 – Brazil
• Acragas humilis Simon, 1900 – Brazil
• Acragas leucaspis Simon, 1900 – Venezuela
• Acragas longimanus Simon, 1900 (type) – Brazil
• Acragas longipalpus (Peckham & Peckham, 1885) – Guatemala
• Acragas mendax Bauab & Soares, 1978 – Brazil
• Acragas miniaceus Simon, 1900 – Peru, Brazil
• Acragas nigromaculatus (Mello-Leitão, 1922) – Brazil
• Acragas pacatus (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Central America
• Acragas peckhami (Chickering, 1946) – Panama
• Acragas procalvus Simon, 1900 – Peru
• Acragas quadriguttatus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico to Panama
• Acragas rosenbergi Simon, 1901 – Ecuador
• Acragas trimaculatus Mello-Leitão, 1917 – Brazil
• Acragas zeteki (Chickering, 1946) – Panama

References

1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Acragas Simon, 1900". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
2. Simon, E. (1900). "Etudes arachnologiques. 30e Mémoire. XLVII. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Attidae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 69: 27–61.