Saitis
Genus of spiders
Saitis is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1876.[ 2] The Australian species may belong to other genera, such as Maratus .
Species
As of August 2019[update] it contains thirty-two species, found worldwide:[ 1]
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
^ a b c 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.