Chira (spider)
| Chira | |
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| Chira lucina | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Chira Peckham & Peckham, 1896[1] |
| Type species | |
| C. trivittata (Taczanowski, 1871)
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14, see text | |
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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.
Spiders in this genus are found in Central and South America.[1]
Species
As of October 2025, this genus includes fourteen species:[1]
- Chira fagei Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
- Chira flavescens Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
- Chira gounellei (Simon, 1902) – Venezuela, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
- Chira guianensis (Taczanowski, 1871) – Trinidad, French Guiana, Peru, Brazil
- Chira hanagarthi Rubio, Perger, Baigorria, Metzner & Höfer, 2023 – Bolivia
- Chira ivyatenea Rubio, Perger, Baigorria, Metzner & Höfer, 2023 – Argentina
- Chira lanei Soares & Camargo, 1948 – Brazil
- Chira lucina Simon, 1902 – Guyana, Brazil, Paraguay
- Chira simoni Galiano, 1961 – Brazil, Paraguay
- Chira spinosa (Mello-Leitão, 1939) – Honduras, Panama, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
- Chira stolari Rubio, Perger, Baigorria, Metzner & Höfer, 2023 – Brazil
- Chira thysbe Simon, 1902 – Panama, Guyana, Brazil, Uruguay
- Chira trivittata (Taczanowski, 1871) – Guatemala, Panama, Guyana, Bolivia, Brazil (type species)
- Chira typica (Mello-Leitão, 1930) – Brazil
References
- ^ a b c d "Gen. Chira G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1896". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-24.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b 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.