Orchestina Simon, 1882

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Genus Orchestina Simon, 1882

Type species.

Orchestina pavesii (Simon, 1873).

Diagnosis.

Males and females with swollen fourth femur; H-shaped eye arrangement, recurved PER; high clypeus; tarsal organs pattern (4-4-3-3); legs lacking spines. Male palpal tibia enlarged, papal bulb with conspicuous seminal duct ( Henrard and Jocqué 2012; Izquierdo and Ramírez 2017).

Composition and distribution in Аmerica.

Ninety-three species across the USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.