| Mexcala | |
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| Female Mexcala elegans | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Mexcala Peckham & Peckham, 1902 |
| Type species | |
| M. rufa Peckham & Peckham, 1902 | |
| Species | |
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Mexcala is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1902. The name is probably derived from the Nahuatl mezcal.
Species
As of June 2019 it contains twenty-one species, found only in Africa, Yemen, and Iran:
- Mexcala agilis Lawrence, 1928 – Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Namibia
- Mexcala angolensis Wesolowska, 2009 – Angola
- Mexcala caerulea (Simon, 1901) – West Africa
- Mexcala elegans Peckham & Peckham, 1903 – Ivory Coast, Malawi, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa
- Mexcala farsensis Logunov, 2001 – Iran
- Mexcala fizi Wesolowska, 2009 – Congo, Tanzania
- Mexcala formosa Wesolowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia
- Mexcala kabondo Wesolowska, 2009 – Congo, Malawi, Tanzania
- Mexcala macilenta Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 – Ethiopia, Tanzania
- Mexcala meridiana Wesolowska, 2009 – South Africa
- Mexcala monstrata Wesolowska & van Harten, 1994 – Egypt, Yemen
- Mexcala namibica Wesolowska, 2009 – Namibia
- Mexcala nigrocyanea (Simon, 1886) – Libya, Egypt, Ethiopia
- Mexcala ovambo Wesolowska, 2009 – Namibia
- Mexcala quadrimaculata (Lawrence, 1942) – Zimbabwe, South Africa
- Mexcala rufa Peckham & Peckham, 1902 (type) – Namibia, South Africa
- Mexcala signata Wesolowska, 2009 – Kenya, Tanzania
- Mexcala smaragdina Wesolowska & Edwards, 2012 – Nigeria
- Mexcala synagelese Wesolowska, 2009 – Sudan, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Congo, Angola
- Mexcala torquata Wesolowska, 2009 – Ivory Coast, Guinea
- Mexcala vicina Wesolowska, 2009 – Cameroon, Congo
References
- ^ "Gen. Mexcala Peckham & Peckham, 1902". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-23.
- Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1902). "Some new genera and species of Attidae from South Africa". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 9 (312): 330–335. doi:10.1155/1902/13502.
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