''Balmaceda'' is a
genus
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of
jumping spiders
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that was first described by
George Peckham
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&
Elizabeth Peckham in 1894.
Species
it contains eleven species, found in Central America,
Argentina
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,
Colombia
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,
Brazil
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,
Ecuador
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, and
Mexico
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:
*''
Balmaceda abba''
Edwards & Baert, 2018 – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
*''
Balmaceda anulipes''
Soares, 1942 – Brazil
*''
Balmaceda biteniata''
Mello-Leitão, 1922 – Brazil
*''
Balmaceda chickeringi''
Roewer, 1951 – Panama
*''
Balmaceda distans''
(Banks
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Because ...
, 1924) – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
*''
Balmaceda minor''
( F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico to El Salvador
*''
Balmaceda nigrosecta''
Mello-Leitão, 1945 – Colombia, Argentina
*''
Balmaceda picta''
Peckham & Peckham, 1894 (
type) – Guatemala to Colombia
*''
Balmaceda reducta''
Chickering Chickering may refer to:
* Chickering, Suffolk, a place in Suffolk, England
* Chickering & Sons, the piano company that was created by Jonas Chickering
* Arthur M. Chickering, an arachnologist
* Arthur W. Chickering, a researcher of student devel ...
, 1946 – Panama
*''
Balmaceda turneri''
Chickering, 1946 – Panama
*''
Balmaceda vera''
Mello-Leitão, 1917 – Brazil
References
External links
Photographs of ''Balmaceda'' species from Brazil
Salticidae genera
Salticidae
Spiders of Central America
Spiders of South America
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