Sassacus

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: Salticinae
Clade: Marpissoida
Tribus: Dendryphantini
Genus: Sassacus
Species: S. alboguttatus – S. arcuatus – S. aurantiacus – S. aztecus – S. barbipes – S. biaccentuatus – S. cyaneus – S. dissimilis – S. flavicinctus – S. glyphochelis – S. helenicus – S. lirios – S. ocellatus – S. paiutus – S. papenhoei – S. resplendens – S. samalayucae – S. sexspinosus – S. trochilus – S. vitis
Name

Sassacus Peckham & Peckham, 1895

Type species: Sassacus papenhoei Peckham & Peckham, 1895, by monotypy
Synonyms

Agassa Simon, 1901, type A. georgiana
Simon, 1901, by monotypy
Ramboia Mello-Leitão, 1943, type R. helenica
Mello-Leitão, 1943, by monotypy

References

Peckham, G. W. & E. G. Peckham. 1895. Spiders of the Homalattus group of the family Attidae. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2: 159–183. [176]
Richman, D. B. 2008. Revision of the jumping spider genus Sassacus (Araneae, Salticidae, Dendryphantinae) in North America. Journal of Arachnology 36: 26–48. PDF
Platnick, N. I. 2009. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Sassacus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1895.[4] It is likely named after Sassacus, a Native American chief of the 16th and 17th century.
Species

As of August 2019 it contains twenty-one species, found in North America, South America, Panama, and Costa Rica:[1]

Sassacus alboguttatus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico
Sassacus arcuatus Simon, 1901 – Brazil
Sassacus aurantiacus Simon, 1901 – Brazil
Sassacus aztecus Richman, 2008 – Mexico
Sassacus barbipes (Peckham & Peckham, 1888) – Mexico to Costa Rica
Sassacus biaccentuatus Simon, 1901 – Paraguay
Sassacus cyaneus (Hentz, 1846) – USA
Sassacus dissimilis Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Argentina
Sassacus flavicinctus Crane, 1949 – Venezuela
Sassacus glyphochelis Bauab, 1979 – Brazil
Sassacus helenicus (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil
Sassacus leucomystax (Caporiacco, 1947) – Guyana
Sassacus lirios Richman, 2008 – Mexico to Costa Rica
Sassacus ocellatus Crane, 1949 – Venezuela
Sassacus paiutus (Gertsch, 1934) – USA, Mexico
Sassacus papenhoei Peckham & Peckham, 1895 (type) – North America
Sassacus resplendens Simon, 1901 – Venezuela
Sassacus samalayucae Richman, 2008 – Mexico
Sassacus sexspinosus (Caporiacco, 1955) – Venezuela
Sassacus trochilus Simon, 1901 – Brazil
Sassacus vitis (Cockerell, 1894) – Canada to Panama

References

Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Sassacus Peckham & Peckham, 1895". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
Richman, D. B. (2008). "Revision of the jumping spider genus Sassacus (Araneae, Salticidae, Dendryphantinae) in North America" (PDF). Journal of Arachnology. 36: 27. doi:10.1636/H07-03.1. ISSN 0161-8202. S2CID 83998396.
Bauab V., M. J.; Soares, B. A. M. (1982). "Contribuição ao estudo dos Salticidae (Araneae) do Brasil. IX". Revista Brasileira de Entomologia. 26: 89.
Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1895). "Spiders of the Homalattus group of the family Attidae". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 2: 159–183.