13, see text Chira is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George Peckham & Elizabeth Peckham in 1896.

[5] It is currently named after Rio Chira, a river in Peru, but the Peckhams originally called the genus Shira, later emended by Eugène Simon.

As of June 2019[update] it contains thirteen species, found only in South America, Guatemala, and Honduras:[1]

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