Genus Sassacus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Works Cited

Metaphidippus vitis - Sassacus vitis - female

Eating a Tachinid Fly in California (October) - Sassacus vitis

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynes)

Family Salticidae (Jumping Spiders)

Subfamily Dendryphantinae

Genus Sassacus

Explanation of Names

Sassacus was the last chief of the Pequot Indians, a tribe of the Connecticut Valley which fought a losing war with the English settlers in 1637. (1)

Numbers

4 species in North America north of Mexico.

Works Cited

1.	Spiders of North America: An Identification Manual By D. Ubick, P. Paquin, P.E. Cushing and V. Roth (eds)

Contributed by Lynette Schimming on 3 July, 2005 - 4:38pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, Jay Barnes, Jeff Hollenbeck, kschnei
Last updated 28 August, 2009 - 12:38am

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