Damoetas

Genus of spiders

Not to be confused with Damoetas, a character in Eclogue 3.

Damoetas

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Subphylum:  | Chelicerata
Class:  | Arachnida
Order:  | Araneae
Infraorder:  | Araneomorphae
Family:  | Salticidae
Subfamily:  | Salticinae
Genus:  | Damoetas
Peckham & Peckham, 1886[1]
Species:  |

D. nitidus

Binomial name
Damoetas nitidus

(L. Koch, 1880)

Damoetas is a monotypic genus of Australian jumping spiders containing the single species, Damoetas nitidus. It was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1886,[2] and is only found in New South Wales and Queensland.[1] Two species that were once in this family, Damoetas christae and Damoetas galianoae have since been moved to Hermosa.[3]

## References

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1. ^ a b "Gen. Damoetas Peckham & Peckham, 1886". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-06.
2. ^ Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1886). "Genera of the family Attidae: with a partial synonymy". Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. 6: 255–342.
3. ^ Prószyński, J. (2001). "Remarks on jumping spiders of the genus Damoetas related to Myrmarachne (Araneae: Salticidae) with description of two new species". Annales Zoologici. 51. Warszawa: 517–522.

Taxon identifiers

Damoetas|

* Wikidata: Q5410247
* Wikispecies: Damoetas
* AFD: Damoetas
* BioLib: 486182
* CoL: 3ZP9
* EoL: 114180
* GBIF: 2170250
* iNaturalist: 420327
* IRMNG: 1309931
* ITIS: 871972
* Open Tree of Life: 3546540
* WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02915

Damoetas christae|

* Wikidata: Q5410142
* IRMNG: 10430695

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