Sittisax

Sittisax is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders).[1]

Sittisax
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Tribe: Sitticini
Genus: Sittisax
Prószyński, 2017[1]
Diversity[1]
2 species

Taxonomy

Sittisax is one of a number of genera that were split off from the broadly defined genus Sitticus (now Attulus) by Jerzy Prószyński in 2016 and 2017. Sittisax was erected in 2017, with the type species Euophrys saxicola.[1] The generic name is derived from the first parts of the generic and specific names of Sitticus saxicola, the name used for the type species before transfer to Sittisax.[2]

Species

As of August 2020, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[1]

  • Sittisax ranieri (Peckham & Peckham, 1909) – Holarctic
  • Sittisax saxicola (C. L. Koch, 1846) (type species) – Palearctic

References

  1. "Gen. Sittisax Prószyński, 2017", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2020-08-17
  2. Prószyński, J. (2017), "Revision of the genus Sitticus Simon, 1901 s.l. (Araneae: Salticidae)", Ecologica Montenegrina, 10: 35–50, doi:10.37828/em.2017.10.7


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