[PW] Ashtabula genus of jumping spiders

[Kay Lancaster]

Your best chance is probably to go back to the original 
description of the genus, in this case by Peckham & Peckham, 
1894.Source: Peckham G.W., Peckham E.G. 1894. Spiders of the 
Marptusa Group. Occ. Pap. Nat. Hist. Soc. Wisc., 2 (2): 140 T. 14 
F. 4 . (fide: 
http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/ashtabul/zonura.htm ) A. 
zonura is the type species of the genus, so that's where I'd hunt 
first.  Doubt it has a whole lot to do with Ohio, as the spider
itself seems to be from Colombia.  But then again, it was 
described in a Wisconsin journal... by these two:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:EM-et-GW-Peckham.jpg

The other place I'd check is with the Milwaukee Public Library...
GW apparently was the City Librarian:
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4196/is_20000101/ai_n10571586

They seem to have used city names for several spider genera, e.g. 
Talavera, Goleta.

Taxonomists often have slightly warped senses of humor, and I 
wouldn't put naming a spider for a town the spider was never near 
beyond us.  Examples of same: Phtiria relativitae (read it out 
loud!), La cucaracham Arthurdactylus conandoylensis, 
Johnson-sea-linkia profunda, or one of my favorites, Eriogonum
inflatum subsp. deflatum.

Kay