{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Speciesbox | taxon = Gorgasella eximia | authority = Chickering, 1946 | parent_authority = Chickering, 1946<ref name=NMBE /> }} '''''Gorgasella''''' is a monotypic genus of Panamanian jumping spiders containing the single species, '''''Gorgasella eximia'''''. It was first described by Arthur Merton Chickering in 1946,<ref name=Chic1946>{{cite journal| last=Chickering| first=A. M.| year=1946| title=The Salticidae of Panama| journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology| pages=1–474| volume=97| author-link=Arthur M. Chickering}}</ref> and is only found in Panama.<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Gorgasella Chickering, 1946| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-07-16| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2669| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> The genus is named after William Crawford Gorgas, who eliminated yellow fever in Panama.
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==External links== * [http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/gorgasel/eximia.htm Diagnostic drawings]
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Category:Arthropods of Panama Category:Monotypic Salticidae genera Category:Salticidae Category:Spiders of Central America
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