Biology:Avitus (spider)

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Short description: Genus of spiders

Avitus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Avitus
Peckham & Peckham, 1896[1]
Type species
A. diolenii
Peckham & Peckham, 1896
Species

6, see text

Avitus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1896.[2]

Species

(As of June 2019) it contains six species, found in Brazil , Panama, Argentina , and on the Greater Antilles:[1]

  • Avitus anumbi Mello-Leitão, 1940 – Brazil
  • Avitus castaneonotatus Mello-Leitão, 1939 – Argentina
  • Avitus diolenii Peckham & Peckham, 1896 (type) – Panama
  • Avitus longidens Simon, 1901 – Argentina
  • Avitus taylori (Peckham & Peckham, 1901) – Jamaica
  • Avitus variabilis Mello-Leitão, 1945 – Argentina

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Avitus Peckham & Peckham, 1896. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2526. Retrieved 2019-07-05. 
  2. Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1896). "Spiders of the family Attidae from Central America and Mexico". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 3: 1–101. 

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