| Chirothecia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Chirothecia Taczanowski, 1878[1] |
| Type species | |
| C. clavimana (Taczanowski, 1871)
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| Species | |
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13, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Chirothecia is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Władysław Taczanowski in 1878.[3] Chirothecia is very similar to Bellota, but can be distinguished by the following characteristics: a much wider and taller cephalothorax (the width being 70–80% of the length and the height being 38–47% of the length); a much longer eye area (occupying 60–70% of the cephalothorax length); the posterior median eyes are always closer to the anterior lateral eyes than the posterior lateral eyes.[4]
Species
As of June 2019[update] it contains thirteen species, found only in South America and Panama:[1]
- Chirothecia amazonica Simon, 1901 – Brazil
- Chirothecia botucatuensis Bauab, 1980 – Brazil
- Chirothecia clavimana (Taczanowski, 1871) (type) – Brazil, Guyana
- Chirothecia crassipes Taczanowski, 1878 – Peru
- Chirothecia daguerrei Galiano, 1972 – Argentina
- Chirothecia euchira (Simon, 1901) – Brazil, Argentina
- Chirothecia minima Mello-Leitão, 1943 – Argentina
- Chirothecia rosea (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Panama
- Chirothecia semiornata Simon, 1901 – Brazil
- Chirothecia soaresi Bauab, 1980 – Brazil
- Chirothecia soesilae Makhan, 2006 – Suriname
- Chirothecia uncata Soares & Camargo, 1948 – Brazil
- Chirothecia wrzesniowskii Taczanowski, 1878 – Ecuador
References
- ^ a b c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Chirothecia Taczanowski, 1878". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
- ^ Galiano, M. E. (1972). "Revisión del género Chirothecia Taczanowski, 1878 (Araneae, Salticidae)". Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia. 4: 4.
- ^ Taczanowski, L. (1878). "Les Aranéides du Pérou. Famille des Attides". Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou. 53: 278–374.
- ^ Galiano, María Elena (1972). "Salticidae (Araneae) formiciformes. XIII. Revisión del género Bellota Peckham, 1892". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales (in Spanish). 31 (83). Buenos Aires: 463–484.
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