Avitus (spider)

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This article is about a genus of spiders. For other uses, see Avitus (disambiguation).

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

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]

  • Mello-Leitão, 1940 – Brazil
  • Mello-Leitão, 1939 – Argentina
  • Peckham & Peckham, 1896 (type) – Panama
  • Simon, 1901 – Argentina
  • (Peckham & Peckham, 1901) – Jamaica
  • Mello-Leitão, 1945 – Argentina

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Avitus Peckham & Peckham, 1896". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. 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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