Synemosyna is a genus of ant mimicking jumping spiders that was first described by Nicholas Marcellus Hentz in 1846.[3]
Species
As of August 2019 it contains twenty species, found in the Caribbean, Central America, South America, the United States, and Mexico:[1]
- Synemosyna americana (Peckham & Peckham, 1885) – Mexico to Venezuela
- Synemosyna ankeli Cutler & Müller, 1991 – Colombia
- Synemosyna aschnae Makhan, 2006 – Suriname
- Synemosyna aurantiaca (Mello-Leitão, 1917) – Colombia, Brazil, Argentina
- Synemosyna decipiens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) – Mexico, Guatemala
- Synemosyna edwardsi Cutler, 1985 – Mexico to Costa Rica
- Synemosyna formica Hentz, 1846 (type) – USA
- Synemosyna hentzi Peckham & Peckham, 1892 – Brazil
- Synemosyna invemar Cutler & Müller, 1991 – Colombia
- Synemosyna lauretta Peckham & Peckham, 1892 – Brazil, Argentina
- Synemosyna lucasi (Taczanowski, 1871) – Colombia to Peru and Guyana
- Synemosyna maddisoni Cutler, 1985 – Mexico, Guatemala
- Synemosyna myrmeciaeformis (Taczanowski, 1871) – Venezuela, Brazil, French Guiana
- Synemosyna nicaraguaensis Cutler, 1993 – Nicaragua
- Synemosyna paraensis Galiano, 1967 – Brazil, French Guiana
- Synemosyna petrunkevitchi (Chapin, 1922) – USA, Cuba
- Synemosyna scutata (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil
- Synemosyna smithi Peckham & Peckham, 1894 – Cuba, St. Vincent
- Synemosyna taperae (Mello-Leitão, 1933) – Brazil
- Synemosyna ubicki Cutler, 1988 – Costa Rica
References
- ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Synemosyna Hentz, 1846". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-26.
- ^ Galiano, M. E. (1966). "Salticidae (Araneae) formiciformes V. Revisión del género Synemosyna Hentz, 1846". Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia. 1: 341.
- ^ Hentz, N. M. (1846). "Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States". Boston Journal of Natural History. 5: 352–370.
External links
Further reading
- Cala-Riquelme, F. (2010). "Primer registro de Synemosyna petrunkevitchi (Chapin, 1922) (Araneae: Salticidae) en Cuba". Novitates Caribaea (in Spanish). 3 (3): 85–86. doi:10.33800/nc.v0i3.179.