Chira (spider)

This article is about a genus of spiders. For other uses, see Chira.

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.

Chira
Chira lucina
Scientific classification
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)
Species
13, see text
Synonyms[1]
Alcimonotus Simon, 1902[2] Crulsia Mello-Leitão, 1930[3] Goya Mello-Leitão, 1945[4] Ilarginus Mello-Leitão, 1939[4]

Species

As of June 2019^[update] it contains thirteen species, found only in South America, Guatemala, and Honduras:^[1]

• Chira distincta Bauab, 1983 – Brazil
• Chira fagei Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
• Chira flavescens Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
• Chira gounellei (Simon, 1902) – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
• Chira guianensis (Taczanowski, 1871) – Peru to Guyana
• Chira lanei Soares & Camargo, 1948 – Brazil
• Chira lucina Simon, 1902 – Brazil, Guyana
• Chira reticulata (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil
• Chira simoni Galiano, 1961 – Brazil, Paraguay
• Chira spinosa (Mello-Leitão, 1939) – Honduras to Argentina
• Chira thysbe Simon, 1902 – Brazil, Guyana
• Chira trivittata (Taczanowski, 1871) (type) – Guatemala to Bolivia
• Chira typica (Mello-Leitão, 1930) – Brazil