Peckhamia (spider)

Peckhamia is a genus of ant-mimicking jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900.^[3] It is named in honor of George and Elizabeth Peckham, and is considered a senior synonym of the genus Consingis.^[2]

Species

As of October 2025 it contains sixteen species, found in North America, Central America, Suriname, Argentina, Brazil, and the Greater Antilles:^[1]

Peckhamia americana (Peckham & Peckham, 1892) – USA, Mexico, Hispaniola
Peckhamia areito Cala-Riquelme, Bustamante, Crews & Cutler, 2020 – Dominican Republic
Peckhamia argentinensis Galiano, 1986 – Argentina
Peckhamia espositoae Cala-Riquelme, Bustamante, Crews & Cutler, 2020 – Jamaica
Peckhamia formosa (Bryant, 1943) – Haiti
Peckhamia magna (Bryant, 1943) – Dominican Republic
Peckhamia montana (Bryant, 1943) – Dominican Republic
Peckhamia picata (Hentz, 1846) – North America
Peckhamia prescotti Chickering, 1946 – Mexico, El Salvador, Panama
Peckhamia scorpionia (Hentz, 1846) (type) – USA, Canada
Peckhamia semicana (Simon, 1900) – Brazil, Argentina
Peckhamia seminola Gertsch, 1936 – USA (Florida)
Peckhamia soesilae Makhan, 2006 – Suriname
Peckhamia surcaribensis Cala-Riquelme, Bustamante, Crews & Cutler, 2020 – Cuba
Peckhamia variegata (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900) – Panama
Peckhamia wesolowskae Cala-Riquelme, Bustamante, Crews & Cutler, 2020 – Cuba

^ ^a ^b ^c Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2025). "Gen. Peckhamia Simon, 1900". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-15.
^ ^a ^b Richman, D. B. (2015). "On the generic name Peckhamia Simon 1900 (Araneae, Salticidae)". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 72 (1): 103. doi:10.21805/bzn.v72i1.a6. S2CID 87955152.
^ Simon, E. (1900). "Descriptions d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Attidae". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 44: 381–407.