Colyttus

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{for|the deme of ancient Greece|Collytus}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Colyttus

| authority = Thorell, 1891

| type_species = C. bilineatus

| type_species_authority = Thorell, 1891

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 7, see text

| synonyms =

  • Donoessus Simon, 1902{{cite journal| last1=Zhang| first1=J. X.| last2=Maddison| first2=W. P.| year=2015| title=Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny| journal=Zootaxa| volume=3938| issue=1| page=31| doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1| pmid=25947489}}

| synonyms_ref =

}}

Colyttus is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1891.{{cite journal| last=Thorell| first=T.| year=1891| title=Spindlar från Nikobarerna och andra delar af södra Asien| journal=Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar| pages=1–149| volume=24| issue=2| author-link=Tamerlan Thorell}} C. lehtinen is named in honor of Finnish arachnologist Pekka T. Lehtinen.

Species

{{as of|2019|06}} it contains seven species, found only in Asia:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Colyttus Thorell, 1891| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-07-06| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2588| doi=10.24436/2}}

References