Sittisax

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Sittisax
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Tribe: Sitticini
Genus: Sittisax
Prószyński, 2017 [1]
Diversity [1]
2 species

Sittisax is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders). [1]

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Taxonomy

Sittisax is one of a number of genera that were split off from the broadly defined genus Sitticus (now Attulus ) by Jerzy Prószyński in 2016 and 2017. Sittisax was erected in 2017, with the type species Euophrys saxicola . [1] The generic name is derived from the first parts of the generic and specific names of Sitticus saxicola, the name used for the type species before transfer to Sittisax. [2]

Species

As of August 2020, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species: [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Gen. Sittisax Prószyński, 2017", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2020-08-17
  2. ↑ Prószyński, J. (2017), "Revision of the genus Sitticus Simon, 1901 s.l. (Araneae: Salticidae)", Ecologica Montenegrina, 10: 35–50, doi: 10.37828/em.2017.10.7


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