Balmaceda (spider)

Balmaceda is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George Peckham & Elizabeth Peckham in 1894.

Distribution

All species of Balmaceda are found in Central America or South America. At least one species, Balmaceda minor, also ranges northwards into Mexico.

Species

it contains eleven species:

• Balmaceda abba <small>Edwards & Baert, 2018</small> – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
• Balmaceda anulipes <small>Soares, 1942</small> – Brazil
• Balmaceda biteniata <small>Mello-Leitão, 1922</small> – Brazil
• Balmaceda chickeringi <small>Roewer, 1951</small> – Panama
• Balmaceda distans <small>(Banks, 1924)</small> – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.)
• Balmaceda minor <small>(F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901)</small> – Mexico to El Salvador
• Balmaceda nigrosecta <small>Mello-Leitão, 1945</small> – Colombia, Argentina
• Balmaceda picta <small>Peckham & Peckham, 1894</small> (type) – Guatemala to Colombia
• Balmaceda reducta <small>Chickering, 1946</small> – Panama
• Balmaceda turneri <small>Chickering, 1946</small> – Panama
• Balmaceda vera <small>Mello-Leitão, 1917</small> – Brazil

References

External links

• Photographs of Balmaceda species from Brazil