Mexcala
Mexcala is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1902. The name is probably derived from the Nahuatl mezcal.Species
it contains twenty-one species, found only in Africa, Yemen, and Iran:
- Mexcala agilis Lawrence, 1928 – Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Namibia
- Mexcala angolensis Wesolowska, 2009 – Angola
- Mexcala caerulea – West Africa
- Mexcala elegans Peckham & Peckham, 1903 – Ivory Coast, Malawi, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa
- Mexcala farsensis Logunov, 2001 – Iran
- Mexcala fizi Wesolowska, 2009 – Congo, Tanzania
- Mexcala formosa Wesolowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia
- Mexcala kabondo Wesolowska, 2009 – Congo, Malawi, Tanzania
- Mexcala macilenta Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 – Ethiopia, Tanzania
- Mexcala meridiana Wesolowska, 2009 – South Africa
- Mexcala monstrata Wesolowska & van Harten, 1994 – Egypt, Yemen
- Mexcala namibica Wesolowska, 2009 – Namibia
- Mexcala nigrocyanea – Libya, Egypt, Ethiopia
- Mexcala ovambo Wesolowska, 2009 – Namibia
- Mexcala quadrimaculata – Zimbabwe, South Africa
- Mexcala rufa Peckham & Peckham, 1902 – Namibia, South Africa
- Mexcala signata Wesolowska, 2009 – Kenya, Tanzania
- Mexcala smaragdina Wesolowska & Edwards, 2012 – Nigeria
- Mexcala synagelese Wesolowska, 2009 – Sudan, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Congo, Angola
- Mexcala torquata Wesolowska, 2009 – Ivory Coast, Guinea
- Mexcala vicina Wesolowska, 2009 – Cameroon, Congo
