Chalcoscirtus

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Chalcoscirtus

| image = Vincent_Chalcoscirtus_diminutus_male_01.jpg

| image_caption = Male Chalcoscirtus diminutus

| authority = Bertkau, 1880

| type_species = C. infimus

| type_species_authority = (Simon, 1868)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 45, see text

}}

Chalcoscirtus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Philipp Bertkau in 1880.{{cite journal| last=Bertkau| first=P.| year=1880| title=Verzeichniss der bisher bei Bonn beobachteten Spinnen| journal=Verhandlungen des Naturhistorischen Vereins der Preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens| pages=215–343| volume=37| author-link=Philipp Bertkau}} The name is derived from the Ancient Greek {{lang|grc-Latn|chalc-}}, meaning "copper", and {{lang|grc-Latn|scirt-}}, meaning "leap".{{citation needed|date=February 2017}}

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{{as of|2019|06}} it contains forty-five species and one subspecies, found in Asia, Europe, North America, and Egypt:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Chalcoscirtus Bertkau, 1880| 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/2568| doi=10.24436/2}}

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