Marengo (spider)

Marengo
Marengo sp. from Saul Kere, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Marengo
Peckham & Peckham, 1892[1]
Type species
M. crassipes
Peckham & Peckham, 1892
Species

6, see text

Marengo is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1892.[2] The name is derived from Marengo, a village in Italy and the name of Napoleon's horse.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference NMBE was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1892). "Ant-like spiders of the family Attidae". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 2 (1): 1–84.