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Genus of spiders

Xenocytaea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Xenocytaea
Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998
Type species
Xenocytaea triramosa
Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998
Species

See text.

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

Of all 150 salticid genera known from Australia and the entire Pacific, only Chalcotropis, Donoessus and Panysinus resemble Xenocytaea.

Name

The genus name is a combination of Greek ξένος "strange, foreign" and the salticid genus Cytaea. This indicates that despite the similarity of the two genera in male palpal structure, this group of species does not belong in Cytaea.

Species

As of March 2018, the World Spider Catalog lists the following species in the genus:

References

  1. Berry, James W.; Beatty, Joseph A.; Proszynski, Jerzy (1998). "Salticidae of the Pacific Islands. III. Distribution of Seven Genera, with Description of Nineteen New Species and Two New Genera" (PDF). Journal of Arachnology. 26 (2): 149–189. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  2. World Spider Catalog (2017). "Gen. Xenocytaea Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998". World Spider Catalog. 19.0. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
Taxon identifiers
Xenocytaea


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