Colyttus

Colyttus
male C. bilineatus from Thailand
female C. bilineatus from Thailand
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Colyttus
Thorell, 1891
Type species
C. bilineatus
Thorell, 1891
Species

7, see text

Synonyms

Colyttus is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1891. C. lehtinen is named in honor of Finnish arachnologist Pekka T. Lehtinen.

Species

As of June 2019 it contains eight species, found only in Asia:

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gen. Colyttus Thorell, 1891". World Spider Catalog Version 26.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2025. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-08-28.
  2. ↑ Zhang, J. X.; Maddison, W. P. (2015). "Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny". Zootaxa. 3938 (1): 31. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1. PMID 25947489.
  3. ↑ Thorell, T. (1891). "Spindlar från Nikobarerna och andra delar af södra Asien". Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar. 24 (2): 1–149.