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Paradamoetas

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Paradamoetas is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1885. The name is a combination of the Ancient Greek "para" (), meaning "alongside", and the salticid genus Damoetas.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilySalticidae
Observations recorded45

Paradamoetas (лат.) — род аранеоморфных пауков из подсемейства Dendryphantinae в семействе пауков-скакунов (Salticidae). Представители рода распространены в Центральной и Северной Америке.

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Specimen records
11
Family
Salticidae
Collections
NMSU, NAUF
Recorded in
United States

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Paradamoetas is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1885. The name is a combination of the Ancient Greek "para" (), meaning "alongside", and the salticid genus Damoetas.

==Species== it contains four species, found in Canada, the United States, Mexico and across parts of Central America: Paradamoetas carus (Peckham & Peckham, 1892) – Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador Paradamoetas changuinola Cutler, 1982 – Panama Paradamoetas fontanus (Levi, 1951) – US, Canada Paradamoetas formicinus Peckham & Peckham, 1885 (type) – US, Mexico, Guatemala to Nicaragua

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Paradamoetas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.