Chalcoscirtus | |
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Male Chalcoscirtus diminutus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Salticidae |
Subfamily: | Salticinae |
Genus: | Chalcoscirtus Bertkau, 1880 [1] |
Type species | |
C. infimus (Simon, 1868) | |
Species | |
45, see text |
Chalcoscirtus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Philipp Bertkau in 1880. [2] The name is derived from the Ancient Greek chalc-, meaning "copper", and scirt-, meaning "leap".[ citation needed ]
As of June 2019 [update] it contains forty-five species and one subspecies, found in Asia, Europe, North America, and Egypt: [1]
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