Saitis

Saitis
Saitis barbipes (male)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Genus:	Saitis Simon, 1876
Type species
Attus barbipes Simon, 1868
Species
see text
Diversity
33 species

Saitis is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). The 30 recognized species are spread worldwide.

Distribution

It is possible that the species from Australia belong to other genera, such as Maratus.

Species

Only fourteen species have diagnostic drawings of any sort, and it is likely that at least some species should be transferred to other genera (Hall 2009).

• Saitis annae Cockerell, 1894 – Jamaica
• Saitis aranukanus Roewer, 1944 – Gilbert Islands
• Saitis ariadneae Logunov, 2001 – Crete
• Saitis auberti Berland, 1938 – New Hebrides
• Saitis barbipes (Simon, 1868) – Mediterranean, Central Europe (introduced?)
• Saitis berlandi Roewer, 1951 – New Hebrides
• Saitis breviuscula Simon, 1901 – Gabon
• Saitis catulus Simon, 1901 – Venezuela
• Saitis chaperi Simon, 1885 – India, Sri Lanka
• Saitis cupidon (Simon, 1885) – New Caledonia
• Saitis cyanipes Simon, 1901 – Brazil
• Saitis graecus Kulczynski, 1905 – Balkans, Greece
• Saitis imitatus (Simon, 1868) – Croatia, Montenegro
• Saitis insectus (Hogg, 1896) – Central Australia
• Saitis insulanus Rainbow, 1920 – Lord Howe Island
• Saitis kandyensis Kim, Ye & Oh, 2013 – Sri Lanka
• Saitis lacustris Hickman, 1944 – Central Australia
• Saitis latifrons Caporiacco, 1928 – Libya
• Saitis magniceps (Keyserling, 1882) – Queensland
• Saitis marcusi Soares & Camargo, 1948 – Brazil
• Saitis mutans Otto & Hill, 2012 – New South Wales
• Saitis nanus Soares & Camargo, 1948 – Brazil
• Saitis perplexides (Strand, 1908) – Jamaica
• Saitis relucens (Thorell, 1877) – Sulawesi
• Saitis sengleti (Metzner, 1999) – Greece, Crete
• Saitis signatus (Keyserling, 1883) – Unknown
• Saitis spinosus (Mello-Leitão, 1945) – Argentina
• Saitis splendidus (Walckenaer, 1837) – Timor
• Saitis taeniatus Keyserling, 1883 – Australia
• Saitis tauricus Kulczynski, 1905 – Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Turkey, Ukraine
• Saitis variegatus Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Argentina
• Saitis virgatus Otto & Hill, 2012 – New South Wales

References

• Platnick, Norman I. (2011): The world spider catalog, version 11.5. American Museum of Natural History.
• David Edwin Hill 2009: "Euophryine jumping spiders that extend their third legs during courtship (Araneaee: Salticidia: Euophryinae: Maratus, Saitis)". Peckhamia 74(1): 1-27.

External links

• Photograph of S. barbipes