Euophrys Temporal range: | |
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Euophrys frontalis (Male) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Salticidae |
Subfamily: | Salticinae |
Genus: | Euophrys C. L. Koch, 1834 [1] |
Type species | |
E. frontalis (Walckenaer, 1802) | |
Species | |
108, see text |
Euophrys is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1834. [2] The small black E. omnisuperstes lives on Mount Everest at elevations up to 6,700 meters, possibly making it the most elevated animal in the world. [3]
As of June 2019 [update] it contains 108 species and one subspecies, found in Oceania, North America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Central America, South America, and on the Windward Islands: [1]