| Saitis | |
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| Saitis barbipes (male) | |
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: | Saitis Simon, 1876 |
| Type species | |
| Euophrys barbipes Canestrini & Pavesi, 1868 | |
| Species | |
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Saitis is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1876. The Australian species may belong to other genera, such as Maratus.
Species
As of August 2019 it contains thirty-two species, found worldwide:
- Saitis annae Cockerell, 1894 – Jamaica
- Saitis aranukanus Roewer, 1944 – Kiribati (Gilbert Is.)
- Saitis ariadneae Logunov, 2001 – Greece (Crete)
- Saitis auberti Berland, 1938 – Vanuatu
- Saitis barbipes (Simon, 1868) (type) – Northern Africa, southern Europe to Turkey
- Saitis berlandi Roewer, 1951 – Vanuatu
- Saitis breviusculus 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 Kulczyński, 1905 – Albania, Greece, Bulgaria
- Saitis imitatus (Simon, 1868) – Croatia, Montenegro
- Saitis insectus (Hogg, 1896) – Central Australia
- Saitis insulanus Rainbow, 1920 – Australia (Lord Howe Is.)
- Saitis kandyensis Kim, Ye & Oh, 2013 – Sri Lanka
- Saitis lacustris Hickman, 1944 – Central Australia
- Saitis latifrons Caporiacco, 1928 – Libya
- Saitis magniceps (Keyserling, 1882) – Australia (Queensland)
- Saitis marcusi Soares & Camargo, 1948 – Brazil
- Saitis mutans Otto & Hill, 2012 – Australia (New South Wales)
- Saitis nanus Soares & Camargo, 1948 – Brazil
- Saitis perplexides (Strand, 1908) – Jamaica
- Saitis relucens (Thorell, 1877) – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
- Saitis sengleti (Metzner, 1999) – Greece (incl. Crete)
- Saitis signatus (Keyserling, 1883) – Unknown
- Saitis spinosus (Mello-Leitão, 1945) – Argentina
- Saitis splendidus (Walckenaer, 1837) – Timor
- Saitis taeniatus Keyserling, 1883 – Australia
- Saitis tauricus Kulczyński, 1905 – Italy, Hungary, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Ukraine
- Saitis variegatus Mello-Leitão, 1941 – Argentina
- Saitis virgatus Otto & Hill, 2012 – Australia (New South Wales)
References
- ^ Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Saitis Simon, 1876". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- Simon, E. (1876). Les arachnides de France. Tome troisième. Roret, Paris.
External links
Further reading
- Hill, David Edwin (2009). "Euophryine jumping spiders that extend their third legs during courtship (Araneaee: Salticidia: Euophryinae: Maratus, Saitis)". Peckhamia. 74 (1): 1–27.
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