Mexcala

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.

Species
it contains twenty-one species, found only in Africa, Yemen, and Iran:
 * Mexcala agilis Lawrence, 1928 – Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Namibia
 * Mexcala angolensis Wesolowska, 2009 – Angola
 * Mexcala caerulea (Simon, 1901) – West Africa
 * Mexcala elegans Peckham & Peckham, 1903 – Ivory Coast, Malawi, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa
 * Mexcala farsensis Logunov, 2001 – Iran
 * Mexcala fizi Wesolowska, 2009 – Congo, Tanzania
 * Mexcala formosa Wesolowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia
 * Mexcala kabondo Wesolowska, 2009 – Congo, Malawi, Tanzania
 * Mexcala macilenta Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 – Ethiopia, Tanzania
 * Mexcala meridiana Wesolowska, 2009 – South Africa
 * Mexcala monstrata Wesolowska & van Harten, 1994 – Egypt, Yemen
 * Mexcala namibica Wesolowska, 2009 – Namibia
 * Mexcala nigrocyanea (Simon, 1886) – Libya, Egypt, Ethiopia
 * Mexcala ovambo Wesolowska, 2009 – Namibia
 * Mexcala quadrimaculata (Lawrence, 1942) – Zimbabwe, South Africa
 * Mexcala rufa Peckham & Peckham, 1902 (type) – Namibia, South Africa
 * Mexcala signata Wesolowska, 2009 – Kenya, Tanzania
 * Mexcala smaragdina Wesolowska & Edwards, 2012 – Nigeria
 * Mexcala synagelese Wesolowska, 2009 – Sudan, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Congo, Angola
 * Mexcala torquata Wesolowska, 2009 – Ivory Coast, Guinea
 * Mexcala vicina Wesolowska, 2009 – Cameroon, Congo