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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Avitus Peckham & Peckham, 1896 |
| Type species | |
| A. diolenii Peckham & Peckham, 1896 | |
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Avitus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1896.
Species
As of June 2019 it contains six species, found in Brazil, Panama, Argentina, and on the Greater Antilles:
- Avitus anumbi Mello-Leitão, 1940 – Brazil
- Avitus castaneonotatus Mello-Leitão, 1939 – Argentina
- Avitus diolenii Peckham & Peckham, 1896 (type) – Panama
- Avitus longidens Simon, 1901 – Argentina
- Avitus taylori (Peckham & Peckham, 1901) – Jamaica
- Avitus variabilis Mello-Leitão, 1945 – Argentina
References
- ^ Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Avitus Peckham & Peckham, 1896". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
- Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1896). "Spiders of the family Attidae from Central America and Mexico". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin. 3: 1–101.
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