Erica eugenia is a species of jumping spider. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Erica. It was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1892,[3] and is only found in Brazil, Panama, and Bolivia.[1][4] It resembles the related genus Fluda, with which its range overlaps in Panama and Brazil, but can be distinguished by its higher cephalothorax with the cephalic region slightly inclined forward. It is a myrmecomorph, mimicking the ant genus Crematogaster and residing near their nests.[5]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Erica Peckham & Peckham, 1892 |
| Species: | E. eugenia
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| Erica eugenia Peckham & Peckham, 1892[1]
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References
edit- ^ a b c "Gen. Erica Peckham & Peckham, 1892". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-07.
- ^ Galiano, M. E. (1980). "Catalogo de los especimenes tipicos de Salticidae (Araneae) descriptos por Candido F. de Mello-Leitão. Primera parte". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales. 39: 35.
- ^ Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1892). "Ant-like spiders of the family Attidae". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 2 (1): 1–84.
- ^ Perger, Robert; Rubio, Gonzalo D. (25 July 2022). "A new genus of jumping spider from the Bolivian Yungas forest, a new country record for Erica eugenia Peckham & Peckham, 1892, and notes on turtle ant mimicry (Araneae: Salticidae: Simonellini)". Arachnology. 19 (2). doi:10.13156/arac.2022.19.2.574. Retrieved 27 October 2024.
- ^ Bedoya-Roqueme, Edwin (15 June 2022). "On the jumping spider Erica eugenia Peckham & Peckham 1892 (Araneae: Salticidae: Simonellini) from Brazil" (PDF). Peckhamia (268.1): 1–8. Retrieved 27 October 2024.
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