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Genus: Peckhamia Simon, 1900 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Peckhamia formosa (Bryant, 1943)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033135

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Described:

Distribution: Haiti

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | Salticidae Database Prószyński (2025) | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m (21371) - (Cala-Riquelme et al., 2020)
Allotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA f (25797) - (Cala-Riquelme et al., 2020)

Taxonomic References

Descanso formosus Bryant, 1943b: 476, pl. 4, f. 34, 41, pl. 5, f. 53 (Dmf) Original description

Peckhamia formosa Cala-Riquelme et al., 2020: 155, f. 49-51 (mf, T from Descanso)

References

Bryant, E. B. (1943b). The salticid spiders of Hispaniola. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 92: 445-529. -- Show included taxa

Cala-Riquelme, F., Bustamante, A. A., Crews, S. C. & Cutler, B. (2020). New species of Peckhamia Simon, 1900 (Salticidae: Dendryphantini: Synagelina) from the Greater Antilles. Zootaxa 4899(1): 141-160. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4899.1.7 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2025). Salticidae (Araneae) Genera of the World "a management tool for developing a new system of Salticidae" - a scrollable e-Textbook. Version December 20th, 2025, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2020-12-30	New taxonomic reference entry	Cala-Riquelme et al., 2020
2020-12-30	Species transferred to new genus	Cala-Riquelme et al., 2020		Species transferred from Descanso to Peckhamia