Messua (genus)

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Messua
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Dendryphantinae
Tribe: Zygoballini
Genus: Messua
Peckham & Peckham, 1896
Diversity
11 species
Type species
Messua desidiosa
Peckham & Peckham, 1896
Species

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Messua is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).

[edit] Name

The genus name is derived from Messua, a female character from Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book. Other salticid genera with names of Kipling's characters are Akela, Bagheera and Nagaina.

[edit] Species

  • Messua centralis (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) — Panama
  • Messua dentigera (F. O. P-Cambridge, 1901) — Guatemala to Panama
  • Messua desidiosa Peckham & Peckham, 1896 — Costa Rica, Panama
  • Messua donalda (Kraus, 1955) — El Salvador
  • Messua latior (Roewer, 1955) — Panama
  • Messua laxa (Chickering, 1946) — Panama
  • Messua limbata (Banks, 1898) — USA, Mexico
  • Messua moma (F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1901) — Guatemala to Guyana
  • Messua octonotata (F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1901) — Central America
  • Messua pura (Bryant, 1948) — Mexico
  • Messua tridentata (F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1901) — Mexico


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