Mendoza (spider)

Mendoza
Mendoza elongata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Mendoza Peckham & Peckham, 1894[1]
Type species
M. canestrinii (Ninni, 1868)
Species
9, see text

Mendoza is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1894.^[2]

Species

As of June 2019^[update] it contains nine species, found only in Africa, Asia, and Europe:^[1]

• Mendoza canestrinii (Ninni, 1868) (type) – Southern Europe, North Africa to Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam
• Mendoza dersuuzalai (Logunov & Wesolowska, 1992) – Russia
• Mendoza elongata (Karsch, 1879) – Russia, China, Korea, Japan
• Mendoza ibarakiensis (Bohdanowicz & Prószyński, 1987) – Japan
• Mendoza nobilis (Grube, 1861) – Russia, Korea, China
• Mendoza pulchra (Prószyński, 1981) – Russia, China, Korea, Japan
• Mendoza ryukyuensis Baba, 2007 – Japan
• Mendoza suguroi Baba, 2013 – Japan
• Mendoza zebra (Logunov & Wesolowska, 1992) – Russia

References

1. "Gen. Mendoza Peckham & Peckham, 1894". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
2. Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1894). "Spiders of the Marptusa group". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 2: 85–156.