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| Adult male Martella lineatipes from Belize | |
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: | Martella Peckham & Peckham, 1892 |
| Type species | |
| M. pottsi Peckham & Peckham, 1892 | |
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12, see text | |
Martella is a genus of ant mimicking jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1892. Species of this genus are found in South America and Central America.
Species
As of June 2019 it contains twelve species, found in Central America, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico:
- Martella amapa Galiano, 1996 – Brazil
- Martella bicavata (Chickering, 1946) – Panama
- Martella camba (Galiano, 1969) – Argentina
- Martella furva (Chickering, 1946) – Panama
- Martella gandu Galiano, 1996 – Brazil
- Martella goianensis Galiano, 1969 – Brazil
- Martella lineatipes F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 – Mexico to Costa Rica
- Martella maria Peckham & Peckham, 1892 – Brazil
- Martella mutillaeformis (Taczanowski, 1878) – Peru
- Martella pasteuri Galiano, 1996 – Brazil
- Martella pottsi Peckham & Peckham, 1892 (type) – Guatemala to Brazil
- Martella utingae (Galiano, 1967) – Brazil
References
- ^ Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Martella Peckham & Peckham, 1892". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
- Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1892). "Ant-like spiders of the family Attidae". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 2 (1): 1–84.
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