Saitis

Genus of spiders

Saitis

Saitis barbipes (male)
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Subphylum:  | Chelicerata
Class:  | Arachnida
Order:  | Araneae
Infraorder:  | Araneomorphae
Family:  | Salticidae
Subfamily:  | Salticinae
Genus:  | Saitis
Simon, 1876[1]
Type species
Euophrys barbipes[1]

Canestrini & Pavesi, 1868

Species

32, see text

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

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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

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1. ^ 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.
2. ^ Simon, E. (1876). Les arachnides de France. Tome troisième. Roret, Paris.

## External links

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* Photograph of S. barbipes

## Further reading

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* Hill, David Edwin (2009). "Euophryine jumping spiders that extend their third legs during courtship (Araneaee: Salticidia: Euophryinae: Maratus, Saitis)". Peckhamia. 74 (1): 1–27.

Taxon identifiers

Saitis|

* Wikidata: Q944013
* Wikispecies: Saitis
* ADW: Saitis
* AFD: Saitis
* BioLib: 231920
* BOLD: 351662
* CoL: 7BQL
* EoL: 114213
* Fauna Europaea: 352597
* Fauna Europaea (new): 33ae1b99-ba3a-4629-9824-af5fe472c1f5
* GBIF: 2174525
* iNaturalist: 420581
* IRMNG: 1053178
* ITIS: 872971
* NCBI: 1317516
* Open Tree of Life: 3546968
* WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03204

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