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

Museum specimens

Specimen records
169
Family
Salticidae
Collections
MCZ, MNRJ, MPEG
Recorded in
Peru, Brazil, Guyana, Trinidad And Tobago, Brasil, Ecuador

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

==Species== it contains fifteen species, found in Central and South America and in the Caribbean: 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

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