Bythocrotus

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Bythocrotus

| authority = Simon, 1903

| type_species = B. cephalotes

| type_species_authority = (Simon, 1888)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = {{Specieslist

| B. cephalotes|(Simon, 1888) – Hispaniola

| B. crypticus|Zhang & Maddison, 2012 – Hispaniola}}

}}

Bythocrotus is a genus of Caribbean jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1903.{{cite book| last=Simon| first=E| year=1903| title=Histoire naturelle des araignées| publisher=Roret | publication-place=Paris| doi=10.5962/bhl.title.51973| author-link=Eugène Simon}} {{as of|2019|06}} it contains only two species, found only on Hispaniola: Bythocrotus cephalotes and Bythocrotus crypticus.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Bythocrotus Simon, 1903| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-07-05| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2554| doi=10.24436/2}}