Psecas

Psecas is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850.^[2]

Psecas
Immature male Psecas euoplus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Psecas C. L. Koch, 1850[1]
Type species
P. cyaneus (C. L. Koch, 1846)
Species
14, see text

Species

As of August 2019^[update] it contains fourteen species, found only in South America, Panama, and on Trinidad:^[1]

• Psecas bacelarae Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
• Psecas barbaricus (Peckham & Peckham, 1894) – Trinidad
• Psecas bubo (Taczanowski, 1871) – Guyana
• Psecas chapoda (Peckham & Peckham, 1894) – Brazil
• Psecas chrysogrammus (Simon, 1901) – Peru, Brazil
• Psecas cyaneus (C. L. Koch, 1846) (type) – Suriname
• Psecas euoplus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936 – Panama
• Psecas jaguatirica Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Colombia
• Psecas pulcher Badcock, 1932 – Paraguay
• Psecas rubrostriatus Schmidt, 1956 – Colombia
• Psecas sumptuosus (Perty, 1833) – Panama to Argentina
• Psecas vellutinus Mello-Leitão, 1948 – Guyana
• Psecas viridipurpureus (Simon, 1901) – Brazil
• Psecas zonatus Galiano, 1963 – Brazil