Colyttus

For the deme of ancient Greece, see Collytus.

Colyttus
male C. bilineatus from Thailand
female C. bilineatus from Thailand
Scientific classification
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]
Donoessus Simon, 1902 [2]

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 ^[update] it contains eight species, found only in Asia: ^[1]

• Colyttus bilineatus Thorell, 1891 (type) – Indonesia (Sumatra, Moluccas)
• Colyttus kerinci (Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Colyttus lehtineni Zabka, 1985 – China, Vietnam
• Colyttus nigriceps (Simon, 1899) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Colyttus proszynskii Caleb, Chatterjee, Tyagi, Kundu & Kumar, 2018 – India
• Colyttus robustus Zhang & Maddison, 2012 – Malaysia
• Colyttus striatus (Simon, 1902) – Borneo
• Colyttus yiwui Lin & Li, 2020 - China

References

1. "Gen. Colyttus Thorell, 1891". World Spider Catalog Version 26.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2025. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2025-08-28.
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.