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