Amycus (spider)

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{About|a genus of spiders|other uses|Amycus (disambiguation)}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Amycus

| image = Amycus albipalpus.jpg

| image_caption = A. albipalpus

| authority = C. L. Koch, 1846

| type_species = A. igneus

| type_species_authority = (Perty, 1833)

| subdivision = 12, see text

}}

Amycus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1846.{{cite book| last=Koch| first=C. L.| year=1846| title=Die Arachniden| publisher=J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, Dreizehnter Band, pp. , Vierzehnter Band, pp. 1-88.| pages=1–234| author-link=Carl Ludwig Koch}}

Species

{{as of|2019|06}} it contains twelve species, found only in South America and Mexico:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Amycus C. L. Koch, 1846| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-07-05| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2493| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}

References