''Chirothecia'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
jumping spiders
Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. , this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiderscomprising 13% of spider species. Jumping s ...
that was first described by
Władysław Taczanowski
Władysław Taczanowski (; 17 March 1819, in Jabłonna, Lublin Voivodeship – 17 January 1890, in Warsaw) was a Polish zoologist and collector of natural history who explored the Russian Far East and northern Africa. He specialized mainly in orn ...
in 1878.
''Chirothecia'' is very similar to ''
Bellota'', but can be distinguished by the following characteristics: a much wider and taller
cephalothorax
The cephalothorax, also called prosoma in some groups, is a tagma of various arthropods, comprising the head and the thorax fused together, as distinct from the abdomen behind. (The terms ''prosoma'' and ''opisthosoma'' are equivalent to ''cepha ...
(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.
Species
it contains thirteen species, found only in South America and
Panama
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:
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Chirothecia amazonica
''Chirothecia'' is a genus of Salticidae, jumping spiders that was first described by Władysław Taczanowski in 1878. ''Chirothecia'' is very similar to ''Bellota'', but can be distinguished by the following characteristics: a much wider and tall ...
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Simon, 1901 – Brazil
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Chirothecia botucatuensis''
Bauab, 1980 – Brazil
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Chirothecia clavimana
''Chirothecia'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Władysław Taczanowski in 1878. ''Chirothecia'' is very similar to '' Bellota'', but can be distinguished by the following characteristics: a much wider and taller cephalot ...
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(Taczanowski, 1871) (
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) – Brazil, Guyana
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Chirothecia crassipes''
Taczanowski, 1878 – Peru
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Chirothecia daguerrei''
Galiano, 1972 – Argentina
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Chirothecia euchira
''Chirothecia'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Władysław Taczanowski in 1878. ''Chirothecia'' is very similar to '' Bellota'', but can be distinguished by the following characteristics: a much wider and taller cephalot ...
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(Simon, 1901) – Brazil, Argentina
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Chirothecia minima
''Chirothecia'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Władysław Taczanowski in 1878. ''Chirothecia'' is very similar to '' Bellota'', but can be distinguished by the following characteristics: a much wider and taller cephalot ...
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Mello-Leitão, 1943 – Argentina
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Chirothecia rosea''
( F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Panama
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Chirothecia semiornata''
Simon, 1901 – Brazil
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Chirothecia soaresi''
Bauab, 1980 – Brazil
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Chirothecia soesilae''
Makhan, 2006 – Suriname
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Chirothecia uncata''
Soares & Camargo, 1948 – Brazil
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Chirothecia wrzesniowskii
''Chirothecia'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Władysław Taczanowski in 1878. ''Chirothecia'' is very similar to '' Bellota'', but can be distinguished by the following characteristics: a much wider and taller cephalot ...
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Taczanowski, 1878 – Ecuador
References
Salticidae
Salticidae genera
Taxa named by Władysław Taczanowski
Spiders of South America
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