Chira
Chira lucina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Chira
Peckham & Peckham, 1896[1]
Type species
C. trivittata
(Taczanowski, 1871)
Species

13, see text

Synonyms[1]

Chira is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George Peckham & Elizabeth Peckham in 1896.[5] It is currently named after Rio Chira, a river in Peru, but the Peckhams originally called the genus Shira, later emended by Eugène Simon.

Species

As of June 2019 it contains thirteen species, found only in South America, Guatemala, and Honduras:[1]

  • Chira distincta Bauab, 1983 – Brazil
  • Chira fagei Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
  • Chira flavescens Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
  • Chira gounellei (Simon, 1902) – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
  • Chira guianensis (Taczanowski, 1871) – Peru to Guyana
  • Chira lanei Soares & Camargo, 1948 – Brazil
  • Chira lucina Simon, 1902 – Brazil, Guyana
  • Chira reticulata (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil
  • Chira simoni Galiano, 1961 – Brazil, Paraguay
  • Chira spinosa (Mello-Leitão, 1939) – Honduras to Argentina
  • Chira thysbe Simon, 1902 – Brazil, Guyana
  • Chira trivittata (Taczanowski, 1871) (type) – Guatemala to Bolivia
  • Chira typica (Mello-Leitão, 1930) – Brazil

References

  1. 1 2 3 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Chira Peckham & Peckham, 1896". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. ↑ Galiano, M. E. (1968). "Adiciones a la revision del género Chira Peckham, 1896 (Araneae, Salticidae)". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales. 27: 350.
  3. ↑ Galiano, M. E. (1980). "Catalogo de los especimenes tipicos de Salticidae (Araneae) descriptos por Candido F. de Mello-Leitão. Primera parte". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales. 39: 37.
  4. 1 2 Galiano, M. E. (1961). "Un género de Salticidae (Araneae), nuevo para la Argentina: Alcimonotus Simon, 1902". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales. 21: 322.
  5. ↑ Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1896). "Spiders of the family Attidae from Central America and Mexico". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 3: 1–101.


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