Hentzia
Encyclopedia
Hentzia is a genus
of the spider
family Salticidae (jumping spiders).
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of the spider
Spider
Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms...
family Salticidae (jumping spiders).
Species
- Hentzia alamosa RichmanDavid B. RichmanDavid B. Richman is an American arachnologist and curator of the Arthropod Museum at New Mexico State University. Richman has described many species of spiders in North America and elsewhere....
, 2010 — TexasTexasTexas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
, United StatesUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... - Hentzia antillana Bryant, 1940 — West Indies
- Hentzia audax Bryant, 1940 — CubaCubaThe Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
- Hentzia calypso RichmanDavid B. RichmanDavid B. Richman is an American arachnologist and curator of the Arthropod Museum at New Mexico State University. Richman has described many species of spiders in North America and elsewhere....
, 1989 — JamaicaJamaicaJamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic... - Hentzia chekika RichmanDavid B. RichmanDavid B. Richman is an American arachnologist and curator of the Arthropod Museum at New Mexico State University. Richman has described many species of spiders in North America and elsewhere....
, 1989 — USA, Bahama Islands, Cuba - Hentzia cubana RichmanDavid B. RichmanDavid B. Richman is an American arachnologist and curator of the Arthropod Museum at New Mexico State University. Richman has described many species of spiders in North America and elsewhere....
, 1989 — Cuba - Hentzia elegans (KeyserlingEugen von KeyserlingEugen von Keyserling was a German arachnologist.He was the author of Die Spinnen Amerikas, and completed Die Arachniden Australiens on behalf of Ludwig Carl Christian Koch.-External links:...
, 1885) — North AmericaNorth AmericaNorth America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas... - Hentzia fimbriata (F. O. P-CambridgeFrederick Octavius Pickard-CambridgeFrederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge was an English arachnologist. He is often confused with his uncle, Octavius Pickard-Cambridge , who was also an arachnologist and from whom F. O. Pickard-Cambridge picked up his enthusiasm for the study of spiders.-Life:F. O. Pickard-Cambridge was born in...
, 1901) — MexicoMexicoThe United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
to ColombiaColombiaColombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the... - Hentzia footei (PetrunkevitchAlexander PetrunkevitchAlexander Ivanovitch Petrunkevitch was an eminent arachnologist of his time. From 1910 to 1939 he described over 130 spider species.-Biography:...
, 1914) — Lesser AntillesLesser AntillesThe Lesser Antilles are a long, partly volcanic island arc in the Western Hemisphere. Most of its islands form the eastern boundary of the Caribbean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean, with the remainder located in the southern Caribbean just north of South America... - Hentzia grenada (Peckham & PeckhamGeorge and Elizabeth PeckhamGeorge Williams Peckham and Elizabeth Maria Gifford Peckham were early American teachers, taxonomists, ethologists, arachnologists, and entomologists, specializing in animal behavior and in the study of jumping spiders and wasps.-Lives and careers:George Peckham was born in Albany,...
, 1894) — USA - Hentzia mandibularis (Bryant, 1943) — HispaniolaHispaniolaHispaniola is a major island in the Caribbean, containing the two sovereign states of the Dominican Republic and Haiti. The island is located between the islands of Cuba to the west and Puerto Rico to the east, within the hurricane belt...
- Hentzia mitrata (Hentz, 1846) — USA, CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, Bahama Islands - Hentzia palmarum (Hentz, 1832) — North America, BermudaBermudaBermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. It is about south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and northeast of Miami, Florida...
, Bahama Islands, Cuba - Hentzia parallela (Peckham & Peckham, 1894) — HondurasHondurasHonduras is a republic in Central America. It was previously known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras, which became the modern-day state of Belize...
to TrinidadTrinidadTrinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands and numerous landforms which make up the island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. It is the southernmost island in the Caribbean and lies just off the northeastern coast of Venezuela. With an area of it is also the fifth largest in... - Hentzia pima RichmanDavid B. RichmanDavid B. Richman is an American arachnologist and curator of the Arthropod Museum at New Mexico State University. Richman has described many species of spiders in North America and elsewhere....
, 1989 — USA - Hentzia poenitens (ChamberlinRalph Vary ChamberlinRalph Vary Chamberlin was an American zoologist from Salt Lake City, Utah. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 1904. He was a professor of zoology at Brigham Young University from 1908-1911, and at the University of Utah from 1925-1938....
, 1924) — Mexico - Hentzia squamata (Petrunkevitch, 1930) — Puerto RicoPuerto RicoPuerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
- Hentzia tibialis Bryant, 1940 — Cuba
- Hentzia vernalis (Peckham & Peckham, 1893) — ColombiaColombiaColombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
to St. VincentSaint Vincent (island)Saint Vincent is a volcanic island in the Caribbean. It is the largest island of the chain called Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. It is located in the Caribbean Sea, between Saint Lucia and Grenada. It is composed of partially submerged volcanic mountains... - Hentzia vittata (Keyserling, 1885) — Greater AntillesGreater AntillesThe Greater Antilles are one of three island groups in the Caribbean. Comprising Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola , and Puerto Rico, the Greater Antilles constitute almost 90% of the land mass of the entire West Indies.-Greater Antilles in context :The islands of the Caribbean Sea, collectively known as...
- Hentzia whitcombi RichmanDavid B. RichmanDavid B. Richman is an American arachnologist and curator of the Arthropod Museum at New Mexico State University. Richman has described many species of spiders in North America and elsewhere....
, 1989 — Puerto Rico, Lesser Antilles - Hentzia zombia RichmanDavid B. RichmanDavid B. Richman is an American arachnologist and curator of the Arthropod Museum at New Mexico State University. Richman has described many species of spiders in North America and elsewhere....
, 1989 — Hispaniola