Colyttus

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Colyttus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Colyttus
Thorell, 1891 [1]
Type species
C. bilineatus
Thorell, 1891
Species

7, see text

Synonyms [1]

Colyttus is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1891. [3] C. lehtinen is named in honor of Finnish arachnologist Pekka T. Lehtinen.

Species

As of June 2019 it contains seven species, found only in Asia: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gen. Colyttus Thorell, 1891". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-06.
  2. Zhang, J. X.; Maddison, W. P. (2015). "Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny". Zootaxa. 3938 (1): 31. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1. PMID   25947489.
  3. Thorell, T. (1891). "Spindlar från Nikobarerna och andra delar af södra Asien". Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar. 24 (2): 1–149.