Mexcala
| Mexcala | |
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| Female Mexcala elegans | |
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: | Mexcala Peckham & Peckham, 1902[1] |
| Type species | |
| M. rufa Peckham & Peckham, 1902
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| Species | |
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Mexcala is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1902.[2] The name is probably derived from the Nahuatl mezcal.
Species[edit]
As of June 2019[update] it contains twenty-one species, found only in Africa, Yemen, and Iran:[1]
- Mexcala agilis Lawrence, 1928 – Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Namibia
- Mexcala angolensis Wesolowska, 2009 – Angola
- Mexcala caerulea (Simon, 1901) – West Africa
- Mexcala elegans Peckham & Peckham, 1903 – Ivory Coast, Malawi, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa
- Mexcala farsensis Logunov, 2001 – Iran
- Mexcala fizi Wesolowska, 2009 – Congo, Tanzania
- Mexcala formosa Wesolowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia
- Mexcala kabondo Wesolowska, 2009 – Congo, Malawi, Tanzania
- Mexcala macilenta Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 – Ethiopia, Tanzania
- Mexcala meridiana Wesolowska, 2009 – South Africa
- Mexcala monstrata Wesolowska & van Harten, 1994 – Egypt, Yemen
- Mexcala namibica Wesolowska, 2009 – Namibia
- Mexcala nigrocyanea (Simon, 1886) – Libya, Egypt, Ethiopia
- Mexcala ovambo Wesolowska, 2009 – Namibia
- Mexcala quadrimaculata (Lawrence, 1942) – Zimbabwe, South Africa
- Mexcala rufa Peckham & Peckham, 1902 (type) – Namibia, South Africa
- Mexcala signata Wesolowska, 2009 – Kenya, Tanzania
- Mexcala smaragdina Wesolowska & Edwards, 2012 – Nigeria
- Mexcala synagelese Wesolowska, 2009 – Sudan, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Congo, Angola
- Mexcala torquata Wesolowska, 2009 – Ivory Coast, Guinea
- Mexcala vicina Wesolowska, 2009 – Cameroon, Congo
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Gen. Mexcala Peckham & Peckham, 1902". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-23.
- ^ Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1902). "Some new genera and species of Attidae from South Africa". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 9 (312): 330–335. doi:10.1155/1902/13502.
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