Colyttus

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

See text.

Diversity
2 species
Synonyms[1]
  • Donoessus Simon, 1902

Colyttus is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders).

Name

C. bilineatus is named for the Latin word for "with two stripes". C. lehtinen is named in honor of Finnish arachnologist Pekka T. Lehtinen.

Species

As of November 2015, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[1]

  • Colyttus bilineatus Thorell, 1891 type species– Sumatra, Moluccas
  • Colyttus kerinci (Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012) – Sumatra
  • Colyttus lehtineni Zabka, 1985 – China, Vietnam
  • Colyttus nigriceps (Simon, 1899) – Sumatra
  • Colyttus robustus Zhang & Maddison, 2012 – Malaysia
  • Colyttus striatus (Simon, 1902) – Borneo

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Gen. Colyttus Thorell, 1891", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2015-11-12


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