Erica eugeniais aspeciesofjumping spider.It is the only species in themonotypicgenusErica.It was first described byGeorge and Elizabeth Peckhamin 1892,[3]and is only found inBrazil,Panama,andBolivia.[1][4]It resembles the related genusFluda,with which its range overlaps in Panama and Brazil, but can be distinguished by its higher cephalothorax with the cephalic region slightly inclined forward. It is amyrmecomorph,mimicking theantgenusCrematogasterand residing near their nests.[5]
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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: | Erica Peckham & Peckham, 1892 |
| Species: | E. eugenia
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| Erica eugenia Peckham & Peckham, 1892[1]
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References
edit- ^abc"Gen.EricaPeckham & Peckham, 1892 ".World Spider Catalog Version 20.0.Natural History Museum Bern. 2019.doi:10.24436/2.Retrieved2019-07-07.
- ^Galiano, M. E. (1980). "Catalogo de los especimenes tipicos de Salticidae (Araneae) descriptos por Candido F. de Mello-Leitão. Primera parte".Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales.39:35.
- ^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.
- ^Perger, Robert; Rubio, Gonzalo D. (25 July 2022)."A new genus of jumping spider from the Bolivian Yungas forest, a new country record for Erica eugenia Peckham & Peckham, 1892, and notes on turtle ant mimicry (Araneae: Salticidae: Simonellini)".Arachnology.19(2).doi:10.13156/arac.2022.19.2.574.Retrieved27 October2024.
- ^Bedoya-Roqueme, Edwin (15 June 2022)."On the jumping spider Erica eugenia Peckham & Peckham 1892 (Araneae: Salticidae: Simonellini) from Brazil"(PDF).Peckhamia(268.1): 1–8.Retrieved27 October2024.
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