''Chinoscopus'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of
jumping spiders
Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. As of 2019, this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders at 13% of all species. Jumping spi ...
that was first described by
Eugène Louis Simon
Eugene is a common male given name that comes from the Greek εὐγενής (''eugenēs''), "noble", literally "well-born", from εὖ (''eu''), "well" and γένος (''genos''), "race, stock, kin".Panama
Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Cos ...
, and on
Trinidad
Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is often referred to as the southernmos ...
:
*''
Chinoscopus ernsti''
(Simon, 1900) – Venezuela
*''
Chinoscopus flavus''
(Peckham, Peckham & Wheeler, 1889) – Panama, Colombia
*''
Chinoscopus gracilis''
(Taczanowski, 1872) (
type) – Ecuador, Brazil, French Guiana
*''
Chinoscopus maculipes''
Crane, 1943 – Trinidad, Venezuela, Brazil, Guyana, French Guiana, Ecuador
References
External links
Photographs of ''C. gracilis''
Salticidae
Salticidae genera
Spiders of South America
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