• Source: Mexcala

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

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Mexcala namibica
• Mexcala farsensis
• Mexcala angolensis
• Mexcala signata
• Mexcala caerulea
• Mexcala macilenta
• Mexcala nigrocyanea
• Mexcala agilis
• Mexcala ovambo
• Mexcala monstrata
• Mexcala
• Mexcala ovambo
• Mexcala synagelese
• Mexcala meridiana
• Mexcala signata
• Mexcala namibica
• Mexcala formosa
• Mexcala kabondo
• Mexcala smaragdina
• Mexcala angolensis