Descanso (spider)
| Descanso Temporal range:
| |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
| |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Peckham & Peckham, 1892[1] |
| Type species | |
| D. vagus Peckham & Peckham, 1892
| |
| Species | |
|
10, see text | |
Descanso is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1892.[2] The name is derived from Spanish descanso, meaning "resting place (of a dead person)", from the verb descansar "to (have a) rest."
Species
As of June 2019 it contains ten species, found in Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Panama, and on Hispaniola:[1]
- Descanso chapoda Peckham & Peckham, 1892 – Brazil
- Descanso discicollis (Taczanowski, 1878) – Peru
- Descanso formosus Bryant, 1943 – Hispaniola
- Descanso insolitus Chickering, 1946 – Panama
- Descanso magnus Bryant, 1943 – Hispaniola
- Descanso montanus Bryant, 1943 – Hispaniola
- Descanso peregrinus Chickering, 1946 – Panama, Colombia
- Descanso sobrius Galiano, 1986 – Brazil
- Descanso vagus Peckham & Peckham, 1892 (type) – Brazil
- Descanso ventrosus Galiano, 1986 – Brazil
References
- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Descanso Peckham & Peckham, 1892". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-07.
- ^ Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1892). "Ant-like spiders of the family Attidae". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 2 (1): 1–84.