Chira (spider)

Chira
	Chira lucina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Chira; Peckham & Peckham, 1896
Type species
	C. trivittata; (Taczanowski, 1871)
Species
	14, see text
Synonyms
	Alcimonotus Simon, 1902; Crulsia Mello-Leitão, 1930; Goya Mello-Leitão, 1945; Ilarginus Mello-Leitão, 1939;

Chira is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George Peckham & Elizabeth Peckham in 1896.^[5] It is currently named after Rio Chira, a river in Peru, but the Peckhams originally called the genus Shira, later emended by Eugène Simon.

Spiders in this genus are found in Central and South America.^[1]

Species

As of October 2025, this genus includes fourteen species:^[1]

Chira fagei Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
Chira flavescens Caporiacco, 1947 – Guyana
Chira gounellei (Simon, 1902) – Venezuela, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
Chira guianensis (Taczanowski, 1871) – Trinidad, French Guiana, Peru, Brazil
Chira hanagarthi Rubio, Perger, Baigorria, Metzner & Höfer, 2023 – Bolivia
Chira ivyatenea Rubio, Perger, Baigorria, Metzner & Höfer, 2023 – Argentina
Chira lanei Soares & Camargo, 1948 – Brazil
Chira lucina Simon, 1902 – Guyana, Brazil, Paraguay
Chira simoni Galiano, 1961 – Brazil, Paraguay
Chira spinosa (Mello-Leitão, 1939) – Honduras, Panama, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina
Chira stolari Rubio, Perger, Baigorria, Metzner & Höfer, 2023 – Brazil
Chira thysbe Simon, 1902 – Panama, Guyana, Brazil, Uruguay
Chira trivittata (Taczanowski, 1871) – Guatemala, Panama, Guyana, Bolivia, Brazil (type species)
Chira typica (Mello-Leitão, 1930) – Brazil

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Gen. Chira G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1896". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-24.
^ Galiano, M. E. (1968). "Adiciones a la revision del género Chira Peckham, 1896 (Araneae, Salticidae)". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales. 27: 350.
^ 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: 37.
^ ^a ^b Galiano, M. E. (1961). "Un género de Salticidae (Araneae), nuevo para la Argentina: Alcimonotus Simon, 1902". Physis, Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales. 21: 322.
^ Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1896). "Spiders of the family Attidae from Central America and Mexico". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 3: 1–101.