Eris (spider)

Eris
Adult male Eris militaris (Bronze Lake Jumper)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Eris C. L. Koch, 1846
Type species
Attus militaris Hentz, 1845
Species
See text.

Eris is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders). It is native to North and South America. As is typical for salticids, they are not defensive. While larger specimens could potentially bite, an envenomation would pose no danger to a human.

Name[]

The genus name is derived from Eris, the Greek goddess of discord (known as Discordia in Roman mythology).

Species[]

E. militaris

• (Karsch, 1880) – Mexico
• Eris flava (Peckham & Peckham, 1888) – United States to Hispaniola
• Eris floridana (Banks, 1904) – USA
• C. L. Koch, 1846 – Puerto Rico
• – United States
• Eris militaris (Hentz, 1845) – USA, Canada, Alaska
• (Chickering, 1946) – Panama
• (Chickering, 1946) – Panama
• (Schmidt, 1971) – Ecuador or Colombia
• Eris rufa (C. L. Koch, 1846) – USA
• (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Mexico
• (Banks, 1898) – Mexico
• (Chickering, 1946) – Panama

Further reading[]

• Hill, David Edwin (1978): The behavior of Eris marginata (Araneae: Salticidae). Peckhamia 1(4): 63-70. PDF (is now E. militaris)

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Eris (Salticidae).

• Jumping Spider Eris sp. free photographs
• Pictures of E. floridana
• Pictures of E. pinea (now E. rufa)

This article related to jumping spiders (Salticidae) is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

• v
• t