Psecas

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Psecas

| image = Psecas_euoplus_penultimate_male.jpg

| image_caption = Immature male Psecas euoplus

| authority = C. L. Koch, 1850

| type_species = P. cyaneus

| type_species_authority = (C. L. Koch, 1846)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 14, see text

}}

Psecas is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1850.{{cite book| last=Koch| first=C. L.| year=1850| title=Übersicht des Arachnidensystems| publisher=J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg| doi=10.5962/bhl.title.39561| pages=1–77| url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/39561| author-link=Carl Ludwig Koch}}

Species

{{as of|2019|08}} it contains fourteen species, found only in South America, Panama, and on Trinidad:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Psecas C. L. Koch, 1850| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-09-11| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2909| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}

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

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Category:Salticidae genera

Category:Salticidae

Category:Spiders of Central America

Category:Spiders of South America

Category:Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Koch