open-access
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jumping spider
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 ...
s. It is published by the Peckham Society, an international organization of naturalists and scientists with an interest in jumping spiders, named in honor of
George and Elizabeth Peckham
George Williams Peckham (March 23, 1845 – January 10, 1914) and Elizabeth Maria Gifford Peckham (December 19, 1854 – February 11, 1940) were a married couple who were early American teachers, taxonomists, ethologists, arachno ...
. The journal was established in 1977 and its current
editor-in-chief
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is David E. Hill.
Several species related to the
peacock spider
''Maratus'' is a spider genus of the family Salticidae (jumping spiders). These spiders are commonly referred to as peacock spiders due to the males' colorful and usually iridescent patterns on the upper surface of the abdomen often enhanced wit ...
Saitis virgatus
''Saitis'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1876. The Australian species may belong to other genera, such as ''Maratus''.
Species
it contains thirty-two species, found worldwide:
*'' Saitis annae ...
'' (2012), ''
Maratus robinsoni
''Maratus'' is a spider genus of the family Salticidae (jumping spiders). These spiders are commonly referred to as peacock spiders due to the males' colorful and usually iridescent patterns on the upper surface of the abdomen often enhanced with ...
'' (2012), ''
Maratus spicatus
''Maratus spicatus'' is a species of the genus ''Maratus'' (peacock spiders), an Australian member of the jumping spider
Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. As of 2019, this family contained over 600 d ...
'' (2012), ''
Maratus velutinus
''Maratus'' is a spider genus of the family Salticidae (jumping spiders). These spiders are commonly referred to as peacock spiders due to the males' colorful and usually iridescent patterns on the upper surface of the abdomen often enhanced with ...
'' (2012), and ''
Maratus avibus
''Maratus'' is a spider genus of the family Salticidae (jumping spiders). These spiders are commonly referred to as peacock spiders due to the males' colorful and usually iridescent patterns on the upper surface of the abdomen often enhanced with ...
'' (2014). The genus ''
Phanuelus
''Phanuelus'' is a spider genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae. The single described species ''Phanuelus gladstone'' is endemic to India. The holotype and paratypes of ''P. gladstone'' were all collected from the campus of Madras Christ ...
'' was first described in ''Peckhamia'' in 2015.
''Peckhamia'' is abstracted and indexed in ''
The Zoological Record
''The Zoological Record'' (''ZR'') is an electronic index of zoological literature that also serves as the unofficial register of scientific names in zoology.
It was started as a print publication in 1864 by the Zoological Society of London, ...