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 | |
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| Female Sassacus papenhoei | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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] | |
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Species
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