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Psecas
Immature male Psecas euoplus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Psecas C. L. Koch, 1850
Type species
P. cyaneus (C. L. Koch, 1846)
Species
14, see text

Psecas is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850.

Species

As of August 2019 it contains fourteen species, found only in South America, Panama, and on Trinidad:

• Psecas bacelarae Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
• Psecas barbaricus (Peckham & Peckham, 1894) – Trinidad
• Psecas bubo (Taczanowski, 1871) – Guyana
• Psecas chapoda (Peckham & Peckham, 1894) – Brazil
• Psecas chrysogrammus (Simon, 1901) – Peru, Brazil
• Psecas cyaneus (C. L. Koch, 1846) (type) – Suriname
• Psecas euoplus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 – Panama
• Psecas jaguatirica Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Colombia
• Psecas pulcher Badcock, 1932 – Paraguay
• Psecas rubrostriatus Schmidt, 1956 – Colombia
• Psecas sumptuosus (Perty, 1833) – Panama to Argentina
• Psecas vellutinus Mello-Leitão, 1948 – Guyana
• Psecas viridipurpureus (Simon, 1901) – Brazil
• Psecas zonatus Galiano, 1963 – Brazil

References

1. ^ Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Psecas C. L. Koch, 1850". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-11.
2. Koch, C. L. (1850). Übersicht des Arachnidensystems. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg. pp. 1–77. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.39561.

External links

• [REDACTED] Media related to Psecas at Wikimedia Commons

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