Euophrys

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Euophrys
Temporal range: Palaeogene– Present
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Euophrys frontalis (Male)
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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]

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Species

As of June 2019 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]

References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Euophrys C. L. Koch, 1834". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2 . Retrieved 2019-07-07.
  2. Koch, C. L. (1834), "Arachniden", in Herrich-Schäffer, G. A. W. (ed.), Deutschlands Insecten
  3. Mammola, Stefano; Michalik, Peter; Hebets, Eileen A.; Isaia, Marco (2017-10-31). "Record breaking achievements by spiders and the scientists who study them". PeerJ. 5: e3972. doi: 10.7717/peerj.3972 . ISSN   2167-8359. PMC   5668680 . PMID   29104823. S2CID   29453671.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: article number as page number (link)