Ashtabula (spider)

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{about|a genus of spiders|other uses|Ashtabula (disambiguation)}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Ashtabula

| authority = Peckham & Peckham, 1894

| type_species = A. zonura

| type_species_authority = Peckham & Peckham, 1894

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 9, see text

}}

Ashtabula is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham in 1894.{{cite journal| last1=Peckham| first1=G. W.| last2=Peckham| first2=E. G.| year=1894| title=Spiders of the Marptusa group| journal=Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin| pages=85–156| volume=2}}

Species

{{as of|2019|06}} it contains nine species, found in Central America, Colombia, Brazil, Uruguay, Venezuela, and Mexico:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Ashtabula Peckham & Peckham, 1894| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-07-05| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2515| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}

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