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.
Distribution Mexcala are found only in Africa, Yemen, and Iran.
Species
, this genus includes 22 species:
Mexcala agilis Lawrence, 1928 – DR Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Namibia Mexcala angolensis Wesołowska, 2009 – Angola Mexcala caerulea (Simon, 1901) – Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast Mexcala elegans G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903 – Ivory Coast, Malawi, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa Mexcala farsensis Logunov, 2001 – Iran Mexcala fizi Wesołowska, 2009 – Congo, Tanzania Mexcala formosa Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia Mexcala inopinata Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Uganda Mexcala kabondo Wesołowska, 2009 – Congo, Malawi, Tanzania Mexcala macilenta Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 – Ethiopia, Tanzania Mexcala meridiana Wesołowska, 2009 – South Africa Mexcala monstrata Wesołowska & van Harten, 1994 – Egypt, Yemen Mexcala namibica Wesołowska, 2009 – Namibia Mexcala nigrocyanea (Simon, 1886) – Libya, Egypt, Ethiopia Mexcala ovambo Wesołowska, 2009 – Namibia Mexcala quadrimaculata (Lawrence, 1942) – Zimbabwe, South Africa Mexcala rufa G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1902 – Namibia, Botswana, South Africa (type species) Mexcala signata Wesołowska, 2009 – Kenya, Tanzania Mexcala smaragdina Wesołowska & Edwards, 2012 – Nigeria Mexcala synagelese Wesołowska, 2009 – Sudan, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, DR Congo, Uganda, Angola Mexcala torquata Wesołowska, 2009 – Guinea, Ivory Coast Mexcala vicina Wesołowska, 2009 – Cameroon, Congo
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