Synemosyna

Synemosyna
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Female Synemosyna petrunkevitchi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Subkingdom:	Eumetazoa
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Section:	Dionycha
Superfamily:	Salticoidea
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Synemosyninae
Genus:	Synemosyna Hentz, 1846
Type species
Synemosyna formica Hentz, 1846
Species
see text
Diversity
19 species

Synemosyna is a genus of ant-like jumping spiders that occurs from Argentina to the northern United States.

Species

• Synemosyna americana (Peckham & Peckham, 1885) — Mexico to Venezuela
• Synemosyna ankeli Cutler & Müller, 1991 — Colombia
• Synemosyna aurantiaca (Mello-Leitão, 1917) — Colombia, Brazil, Argentina
• Synemosyna decipiens (O. P-Cambridge, 1896) — Mexico, Guatemala
• Synemosyna edwardsi Cutler, 1985 — Mexico to Costa Rica
• Synemosyna formica Hentz, 1846 — USA
• Synemosyna hentzi Peckham & Peckham, 1892 — Brazil
• Synemosyna invemar Cutler & Müller, 1991 — Colombia
• Synemosyna lauretta Peckham & Peckham, 1892 — Brazil, Argentina
• Synemosyna lucasi (Taczanowski, 1871) — Colombia to Peru and Guyana
• Synemosyna maddisoni Cutler, 1985 — Mexico, Guatemala
• Synemosyna myrmeciaeformis (Taczanowski, 1871) — Venezuela, Brazil, French Guiana
• Synemosyna nicaraguaensis Cutler, 1993 — Nicaragua
• Synemosyna paraensis Galiano, 1967 — Brazil
• Synemosyna petrunkevitchi (Chapin, 1922) — USA
• Synemosyna scutata (Mello-Leitão, 1943) — Brazil
• Synemosyna smithi Peckham & Peckham, 1893 — Cuba, St. Vincent
• Synemosyna taperae (Mello-Leitão, 1933) — Brazil
• Synemosyna ubicki Cutler, 1988 — Costa Rica

References

• Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.

External links

• Photographs of Synemosyna species from Brazil
• Painting of Synemosyna sp.
• Picture of S. formica