Scopocira
Genus of spiders
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Scopocira is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900.[4]
| Scopocira | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Scopocira Simon, 1900[1] |
| Type species | |
| S. dentichelis Simon, 1900 | |
| Species | |
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15, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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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
