Gorgasella

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

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| taxon = Gorgasella eximia

| authority = Chickering, 1946

| parent_authority = Chickering, 1946

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Gorgasella is a monotypic genus of Panamanian jumping spiders containing the single species, Gorgasella eximia. It was first described by Arthur Merton Chickering in 1946,{{cite journal| last=Chickering| first=A. M.| year=1946| title=The Salticidae of Panama| journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology| pages=1–474| volume=97| author-link=Arthur M. Chickering}} and is only found in Panama.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Gorgasella Chickering, 1946| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-07-16| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2669| doi=10.24436/2}} The genus is named after William Crawford Gorgas, who eliminated yellow fever in Panama.

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