Pelegrina

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Pelegrina
Adult male Pelegrina pervaga
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Pelegrina
Franganillo, 1930[1]
Type species
Dendryphantes proximus
Species

See text.

Diversity
38 species

Pelegrina is a

Salticidae (jumping spiders). They are found throughout North America. Many of the species in Pelegrina were previously placed in the genera Metaphidippus, and before that, Dendryphantes.[1] The genus was originally described in 1930 by the Spanish arachnologist Pelegrín Franganillo Balboa, who named it after himself.[2]

Species

As of March 2017[update], the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Gen. Pelegrina Franganillo, 1930", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2017-03-05
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