Chalcoscirtus

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Chalcoscirtus
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Male Chalcoscirtus diminutus
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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 ]

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As of June 2019 it contains forty-five species and one subspecies, found in Asia, Europe, North America, and Egypt: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Chalcoscirtus Bertkau, 1880". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. Bertkau, P. (1880). "Verzeichniss der bisher bei Bonn beobachteten Spinnen". Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens. 37: 215–343.