Balmaceda (spider)
| Balmaceda | |
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| Balmaceda nigrosecta | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Balmaceda Peckham & Peckham, 1894[1] |
| Type species | |
| B. picta Peckham & Peckham, 1894
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| Species | |
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Balmaceda is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George Peckham & Elizabeth Peckham in 1894.[2]
Distribution
[edit]All species of Balmaceda are found in Central America or South America. At least one species, Balmaceda minor, also ranges northwards into Mexico.[1]
Species
[edit]As of January 2025[update] it contains eleven species:
- Balmaceda abba Edwards & Baert, 2018 – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
- Balmaceda anulipes Soares, 1942 – Brazil
- Balmaceda biteniata Mello-Leitão, 1922 – Brazil
- Balmaceda chickeringi Roewer, 1951 – Panama
- Balmaceda distans (Banks, 1924) – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
- Balmaceda minor (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico to El Salvador
- Balmaceda nigrosecta Mello-Leitão, 1945 – Colombia, Argentina
- Balmaceda picta Peckham & Peckham, 1894 (type) – Guatemala to Colombia
- Balmaceda reducta Chickering, 1946 – Panama
- Balmaceda turneri Chickering, 1946 – Panama
- Balmaceda vera Mello-Leitão, 1917 – Brazil
References
[edit]- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2025). "Gen. Frigga C. L. Koch, 1850". World Spider Catalog Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-01-04.
- ^ Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1894). "Spiders of the Marptusa group". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 2: 85–156.
External links
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Media related to Balmaceda at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Balmaceda (spider) at Wikispecies- Photographs of Balmaceda species from BrazilArchived 2011-07-09 at the Wayback Machine
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