Acragas (spider)

This article is about a genus of spiders. For other uses, see Acragas.

Acragas
Female Acragas longimanus in Ecuador
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Acragas Simon, 1900
Type species
A. longimanus Simon, 1900
Species
20, see text

Acragas is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1900. The name is derived from the Greek name of Agrigentum, an ancient city on Sicily.

Species

As of June 2019 it contains twenty species, found only in Central America, South America, and Mexico:

• Acragas carinatus Crane, 1943 – Venezuela
• Acragas castaneiceps Simon, 1900 – Brazil
• Acragas erythraeus Simon, 1900 – Brazil
• Acragas fallax (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Panama
• Acragas hieroglyphicus (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Mexico to Panama
• Acragas humaitae Bauab & Soares, 1978 – Brazil
• Acragas humilis Simon, 1900 – Brazil
• Acragas leucaspis Simon, 1900 – Venezuela
• Acragas longimanus Simon, 1900 (type) – Brazil
• Acragas longipalpus (Peckham & Peckham, 1885) – Guatemala
• Acragas mendax Bauab & Soares, 1978 – Brazil
• Acragas miniaceus Simon, 1900 – Peru, Brazil
• Acragas nigromaculatus (Mello-Leitão, 1922) – Brazil
• Acragas pacatus (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Central America
• Acragas peckhami (Chickering, 1946) – Panama
• Acragas procalvus Simon, 1900 – Peru
• Acragas quadriguttatus (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico to Panama
• Acragas rosenbergi Simon, 1901 – Ecuador
• Acragas trimaculatus Mello-Leitão, 1917 – Brazil
• Acragas zeteki (Chickering, 1946) – Panama