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

Peckhamia prescotti Chickering, 1946

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035208

Permalink: https://wsc.nmbe.ch/lsid/urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035208

Described:

Distribution: Mexico, El Salvador, Panama

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 - (Chickering, 1946)
Allotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA f - (Chickering, 1946)
Paratype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA mm ff - (Chickering, 1946)
Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany m (8632) of Sarinda fusca - (Kraus, 1955b)

Taxonomic References

Peckhamia prescotti Chickering, 1946: 415, f. 373-375 (Dmf) Original description

Sarinda fusca Kraus, 1955b: 58, f. 166-168 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:057911]

Peckhamia fusca Galiano, 1965b: 310 (T from Sarinda)

Peckhamia prescotti Richman & Cutler, 1988: 75 (S of Peckhamia fusca)

References

Chickering, A. M. (1946). The Salticidae of Panama. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 97: 1-474. -- Show included taxa

Galiano, M. E. (1965b). Salticidae (Araneae) formiciformes IV. Revisión del género Sarinda Peckham, 1892. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia (Ent.) 1: 267-312. -- Show included taxa

Kraus, O. (1955b). Spinnen aus El Salvador (Arachnoidea, Araneae). Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 493: 1-112. -- Show included taxa

Richman, D. B. & Cutler, B. (1988). A list of the jumping spiders of Mexico. Peckhamia 2: 63-88. -- 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
2025-10-15	Species distribution update	Richman & Cutler, 1988	Old value