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Bagheera kiplingi is a species of jumping spider found in Central America, including Mexico, Costa Rica, and Guatemala. It is the type species of the genus Bagheera, which includes three other species, including B. prosper. [1] B. kiplingi is notable for its peculiar diet, which is mostly herbivorous. [2]
Cupiennius salei, from the genus Cupiennius also commonly called the Tiger bromeliad spider, which are large bodied, actively-hunting spiders that are part of the family Trechaleidae. In the mid-1950s it was realised that the spider is an ideal model for biological research because of their large size, predictable behaviour, and ease of ...
Central America as defined by the WGSRPD This category is for articles about spiders native to Central America . For the purposes of this category, Central America comprises Belize , Costa Rica , El Salvador , Guatemala , Honduras , Nicaragua , Panama and the Central American Pacific Islands .
Zygoballus rufipes, commonly called the hammerjawed jumper, [2] is a species of jumping spider which occurs in the United States, Canada, and Central America. Adult females are 4.3 to 6 mm in body length, while males are 3 to 4 mm. [3]
Those of Central America are relatively recent immigrants from South America. Central America's 10 extant genera compares with 22 in South America, 1 in North America north of Mexico, 52 in Australia, 28 in New Guinea and 2 in Sulawesi. South American marsupials are thought to be ancestral to those of Australia and elsewhere.
Cupiennius, known by the common name bromeliad spiders or as the often confused name banana spiders, [2] is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Trechaleidae, named by Eugène Simon in 1891. [3] They are found from Mexico to northwestern South America, and on some Caribbean islands.
Ancylometes is a genus of Central and South American semiaquatic spiders first described by Philipp Bertkau in 1880. [4] Originally placed with the nursery web spiders, it was moved to the Ctenidae in 1967 and in 2025 transferred to the new family Ancylometidae, [5] of which it is the only member. [2]
As of August 2019 it contains nine species, found in Central America, Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador, Brazil, and Mexico: [1]. Pensacola castanea Simon, 1902 – Brazil; Pensacola cyaneochirus Simon, 1902 – Ecuador