Sassacus (spider)

This article is about a genus of spiders. For Native American leader, see Sassacus.

Sassacus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1895.^[4] It is likely named after Sassacus, a Native American chief of the 16th and 17th century.

Sassacus
Female Sassacus papenhoei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Sassacus Peckham & Peckham, 1895[1]
Type species
S. papenhoei Peckham & Peckham, 1895
Species
21, see text
Synonyms[1]
Agassa Simon, 1901[2] Ramboia Mello-Leitão, 1943[3]

Species

• 
  Female S. aurantiacus
• 
  Male S. barbipes
• 
  Female S. cyaneus
• 
  Female S. papenhoei
• 
  Male S. vitis

As of August 2019^[update] it contains twenty-one species, found in North America, South America, Panama, and Costa Rica:^[1]

• Sassacus alboguttatus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico
• Sassacus arcuatus Simon, 1901 – Brazil
• Sassacus aurantiacus Simon, 1901 – Brazil
• Sassacus aztecus Richman, 2008 – Mexico
• Sassacus barbipes (Peckham & Peckham, 1888) – Mexico to Costa Rica
• Sassacus biaccentuatus Simon, 1901 – Paraguay
• Sassacus cyaneus (Hentz, 1846) – USA
• Sassacus dissimilis Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Argentina
• Sassacus flavicinctus Crane, 1949 – Venezuela
• Sassacus glyphochelis Bauab, 1979 – Brazil
• Sassacus helenicus (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Brazil
• Sassacus leucomystax (Caporiacco, 1947) – Guyana
• Sassacus lirios Richman, 2008 – Mexico to Costa Rica
• Sassacus ocellatus Crane, 1949 – Venezuela
• Sassacus paiutus (Gertsch, 1934) – USA, Mexico
• Sassacus papenhoei Peckham & Peckham, 1895 (type) – North America
• Sassacus resplendens Simon, 1901 – Venezuela
• Sassacus samalayucae Richman, 2008 – Mexico
• Sassacus sexspinosus (Caporiacco, 1955) – Venezuela
• Sassacus trochilus Simon, 1901 – Brazil
• Sassacus vitis (Cockerell, 1894) – Canada to Panama