Sassacus (spider)

Sassacus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1895.[4] It is likely named after Sassacus, a Native American chief of the 16th and 17th century.

This article is about a genus of spiders. For Native American leader, see Sassacus.

Sassacus
Female Sassacus papenhoei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Sassacus
Peckham & Peckham, 1895[1]
Type species
S. papenhoei
Peckham & Peckham, 1895
Species

21, see text

Synonyms[1]

Species

As of August 2019 it contains twenty-one species, found in North America, South America, Panama, and Costa Rica:[1]

  • 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

References
  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Sassacus Peckham & Peckham, 1895". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  2. Richman, D. B. (2008). "Revision of the jumping spider genus Sassacus (Araneae, Salticidae, Dendryphantinae) in North America" (PDF). Journal of Arachnology. 36: 27. doi:10.1636/H07-03.1. ISSN 0161-8202. S2CID 83998396.
  3. Bauab V., M. J.; Soares, B. A. M. (1982). "Contribuição ao estudo dos Salticidae (Araneae) do Brasil. IX". Revista Brasileira de Entomologia. 26: 89.
  4. 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. 2: 159–183.


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