Balmaceda is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George Peckham & Elizabeth Peckham in 1894.
Distribution All species of Balmaceda are found in Central America or South America. At least one species, Balmaceda minor, also ranges northwards into Mexico.
Species it contains eleven species: Balmaceda abba Edwards & Baert, 2018 – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.) Balmaceda anulipes Soares, 1942 – Brazil Balmaceda biteniata Mello-Leitão, 1922 – Brazil Balmaceda chickeringi Roewer, 1951 – Panama Balmaceda distans (Banks, 1924) – Ecuador (Galapagos Is.) Balmaceda minor (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901) – Mexico to El Salvador Balmaceda nigrosecta Mello-Leitão, 1945 – Colombia, Argentina Balmaceda picta Peckham & Peckham, 1894 (type) – Guatemala to Colombia Balmaceda reducta Chickering, 1946 – Panama Balmaceda turneri Chickering, 1946 – Panama Balmaceda vera Mello-Leitão, 1917 – Brazil
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Photographs of Balmaceda species from Brazil