Genus of spiders
Malagasy green lynx spider (P. lucasi ) and green bottle fly (Lucilia sp. )
Peucetia is a genus of lynx spiders that is found worldwide.
While P. viridana is found only in Asia , the similar named P. viridans (Green Lynx Spider ) occurs only from the southern United States to Venezuela .
The only Peucetia species to occur in the United States, apart from P. viridans (which occurs in the south from coast to coast) is P. longipalpis , which occurs in the southwestern US to Belize .
Species
As of May 2022[update] it contains the following forty-seven species:[ 1]
Peucetia akwadaensis Patel, 1978 — India, China
Peucetia albescens L. Koch, 1878 — Australia (Queensland)
Peucetia ananthakrishnani Murugesan, Mathew, Sudhikumar, Sunish, Biju & Sebastian, 2006 — India
Peucetia arabica Simon, 1882 — Greece, North, East Africa, Middle East
Peucetia ashae Gajbe & Gajbe, 1999 — India
Peucetia betlaensis Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2007 — India
Peucetia biharensis Gajbe, 1999 — India
Peucetia casseli Simon, 1900 — West, Central Africa
Peucetia cayapa Santos & Brescovit, 2003 — Ecuador, Peru
Peucetia choprai Tikader, 1965 — India
Peucetia crucifera Lawrence, 1927 — Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa
Peucetia elegans (Blackwall, 1864) — India
Peucetia flava Keyserling, 1877 — Venezuela to Argentina
Peucetia formosensis Kishida, 1930 — Taiwan
Peucetia gauntleta Saha & Raychaudhuri, 2004 — India
Peucetia gerhardi van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1994 — West, Central, East Africa
Peucetia graminea Pocock, 1900 — India
Peucetia harishankarensis Biswas, 1975 — India
Peucetia jabalpurensis Gajbe & Gajbe, 1999 — India
Peucetia ketani Gajbe, 1992 — India
Peucetia latikae Tikader, 1970 — India, China
Peucetia lesserti van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1994 — Niger, Kenya
Peucetia longipalpis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902 — USA to Venezuela
Peucetia lucasi (Vinson, 1863) — Botswana, South Africa, Comoros, Mayotte, Madagascar
Peucetia macroglossa Mello-Leitão, 1929 — Colombia, Brazil, Guyana
Peucetia maculifera Pocock, 1900 — South Africa, Lesotho
Peucetia madagascariensis (Vinson, 1863) — Comoros, Mayotte, Madagascar
Peucetia madalenae van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1994 — Mozambique, South Africa
Peucetia margaritata Hogg, 1914 — Australia (Montebello Is.)
Peucetia myanmarensis Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Myanmar
Peucetia nicolae van Niekerk & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1994 — South Africa
Peucetia pawani Gajbe, 1999 — India
Peucetia phantasma Ahmed, Satam, Khalap & Mohan, 2015 — India
Peucetia procera Thorell, 1887 — Myanmar
Peucetia pulchra (Blackwall, 1865) — Central, Eastern, Southern Africa, Seychelles
Peucetia punjabensis Gajbe, 1999 — India
Peucetia rajani Gajbe, 1999 — India
Peucetia ranganathani Biswas & Roy, 2005 — India
Peucetia rubrolineata Keyserling, 1877 — Panama to Argentina
Peucetia striata Karsch, 1878 — Yemen to South Africa, Comoros. Introduced to St. Helena
Peucetia transvaalica Simon, 1896 — Central, Southern Africa
Peucetia virescens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) — Turkey, Middle East
Peucetia viridana (Stoliczka, 1869) — Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar
Peucetia viridans (Hentz, 1832) — North & Central America, Caribbean, Venezuela
Peucetia viridis (Blackwall, 1858) — Spain, Greece, Africa, Middle East. Introduced to Caribbean Is.
Peucetia viveki Gajbe, 1999 — India
Peucetia yogeshi Gajbe, 1999 — India
References
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