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.

Marengo
Marengo sp. from Saul Kere, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
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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

Species

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As of June 2019, the World Spider Catalog recognizes the following species, found only in Asia:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Marengo Peckham & Peckham, 1892". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  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.
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