Chira

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Sectio: Dionycha
Superfamilia: Salticoidea

Familia: Salticidae
Subfamilia: Aelurillinae
Tribus: Freyini
Genus: Chira
Species: C. distincta – C. fagei – C. flavescens – C. gounellei – C. guianensis – C. lanei – C. lucina – C. micans – C. reticulata – C. simoni – C. spinipes – C. spinosa – C. superba – C. thysbe – C. trivittata – C. typica
Name

Chira Peckham & Peckham, 1896

Type species: Chira trivittata (Taczanowski, 1871)
Synonyms

Alcimonotus Simon, 1902
Crulsia Mello-Leitão, 1930
Ilarginus Mello-Leitão, 1939
Goya Mello-Leitão, 1945

References

Platnick, N. I. 2008. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.0. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Vernacular names
English: Chira

Chira is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George Peckham & Elizabeth Peckham in 1896.[5] It is currently named after Rio Chira, a river in Peru, but the Peckhams originally called the genus Shira, later emended by Eugène Simon.
Species

As of June 2019 it contains thirteen species, found only in South America, Guatemala, and Honduras:[1]

Chira distincta Bauab, 1983 – Brazil
Chira fagei Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
Chira flavescens Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
Chira gounellei (Simon, 1902) – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
Chira guianensis (Taczanowski, 1871) – Peru to Guyana
Chira lanei Soares & Camargo, 1948 – Brazil
Chira lucina Simon, 1902 – Brazil, Guyana
Chira reticulata (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil
Chira simoni Galiano, 1961 – Brazil, Paraguay
Chira spinosa (Mello-Leitão, 1939) – Honduras to Argentina
Chira thysbe Simon, 1902 – Brazil, Guyana
Chira trivittata (Taczanowski, 1871) (type) – Guatemala to Bolivia
Chira typica (Mello-Leitão, 1930) – Brazil

References

Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Chira Peckham & Peckham, 1896". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
Galiano, M. E. (1968). "Adiciones a la revision del género Chira Peckham, 1896 (Araneae, Salticidae)". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales. 27: 350.
Galiano, M. E. (1980). "Catalogo de los especimenes tipicos de Salticidae (Araneae) descriptos por Candido F. de Mello-Leitão. Primera parte". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales. 39: 37.
Galiano, M. E. (1961). "Un género de Salticidae (Araneae), nuevo para la Argentina: Alcimonotus Simon, 1902". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales. 21: 322.
Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1896). "Spiders of the family Attidae from Central America and Mexico". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 3: 1–101.