Marengo (spider)
| Marengo | |
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| Marengo sp. from Saul Kere, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. | |
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: | Marengo Peckham & Peckham, 1892[1] |
| Type species | |
| M. crassipes Peckham & Peckham, 1892
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| Species | |
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Marengo is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1892.[2] The name is derived from Marengo, a village in Italy and the name of Napoleon's horse.
Species
[edit]As of June 2019[update], the World Spider Catalog recognizes the following species, found only in Asia:[1]
- Marengo batheryensis Sudhin, Nafin, Benjamin & Sudhikumar, 2019 – India
- Marengo crassipes Peckham & Peckham, 1892 (type) – India, Sri Lanka
- Marengo deelemanae Benjamin, 2004 – Thailand
- Marengo inornata (Simon, 1900) – Sri Lanka
- Marengo nitida Simon, 1900 – Sri Lanka
- Marengo rattotensis Benjamin, 2006 – Sri Lanka
- Marengo sachintendulkar Malamel, Prajapati, Sudhikumar & Sebastian, 2019 – India
- Marengo striatipes Simon, 1900 – Sri Lanka
- Marengo zebra Sudhin, Nafin, Benjamin & Sudhikumar, 2019 – India
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Marengo Peckham & Peckham, 1892". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
- ^ 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.
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