Scopocira

Scopocira
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Scopocira; Simon, 1900
Type species
	S. dentichelis; Simon, 1900
Species
	15, see text
Synonyms
	Paranaia Mello-Leitão, 1941; Suaruna Mello-Leitão, 1945;

Scopocira is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900.^[4]

Species

As of August 2019^[update] it contains fifteen species, found in Central and South America and in the Caribbean:^[1]

Scopocira abaporu Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Trinidad, Bolivia
Scopocira albertoi Galvis, 2015 – Colombia
Scopocira bicornia Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Brazil
Scopocira carinata Crane, 1945 – Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil
Scopocira cepa Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Brazil
Scopocira crotalica Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Colombia, Brazil
Scopocira cyrili Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Guyana, French Guiana
Scopocira dentichelis Simon, 1900 (type) – Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil
Scopocira fuscimana (Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Brazil
Scopocira histrio Simon, 1900 – Ecuador, Suriname, Brazil, Argentina
Scopocira kunai Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Trinidad, Brazil
Scopocira melanops (Taczanowski, 1871) – Brazil
Scopocira pterodactyla Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Brazil
Scopocira sciosciae Costa & Ruiz, 2014 – Brazil
Scopocira tenella Simon, 1900 – Colombia, French Guiana, Brazil

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Scopocira Simon, 1900". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
↑ Galiano, M. E. (1981). "Catalogo de los especimenes tipicos de Salticidae (Araneae) descriptos por Candido F. de Mello-Leitão. Segunda parte". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales. 39: 12.
↑ Galiano, M. E. (1958). "Novedades sobre los géneros Scopocira Simon y Gypogyna Simon (Araneae, Salticidae)". Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina. 20: 25.
↑ Simon, E. (1900). "Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 44: 381–407.

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