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Cotinusa trifasciata

Cotinusa trifasciata

Classification

Order
Araneae

Cotinusa is a genus of jumping spiders indigenous primarily to the Americas, with a localized distribution spanning from Mexico through Central and South America, alongside an anomalous regional outlier reported in Asia. The genus was first formally described and established in 1900 by the prolific French arachnologist Eugène Louis Simon, who established the fundamental morphological criteria utilized to categorize these distinct hunting spiders. Morphology and taxonomy Members of the genus Cotinusa exhibit specialized anatomical traits characteristic of advanced jumping spiders,…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Argentina · 21Uruguay · 6