Nycerella

Nycerella is a genus of spiders of the jumping spider family, Salticidae.

Nycerella
Nycerella delecta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Nycerella Galiano, 1982[1]
Type species
Cyrene decorata Peckham & Peckham, 1893
Species
See text
Diversity
8 species
Synonyms
Cyrene Peckham & Peckham

The genus was renamed from Cyrene Peckham & Peckham, 1893, because the name was preoccupied.

Species

As of June 2017, the World Spider Catalog lists the following species in the genus:^[1]

• Nycerella aprica (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
• Nycerella decorata (Peckham & Peckham, 1893) – Panama, Colombia, St. Vincent
• Nycerella delecta (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Mexico to Panama
• Nycerella donaldi (Chickering, 1946) – Panama
• Nycerella melanopygia Galiano, 1982 – Brazil
• Nycerella neglecta Galiano, 1982 – Panama to Ecuador
• Nycerella sanguinea (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Guatemala to Panama
• Nycerella volucripes Galiano, 1982 – Brazil, Peru