Icius

{{short description|Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Salt0004 Icius subinermis male.jpg

| image_caption = male Icius subinermis

| taxon = Icius

| authority = Simon, 1876

| type_species = Marpissa hamata

| type_species_authority = C. L. Koch, 1846

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text.

}}

Icius is a genus of jumping spiders described by Eugène Simon in 1876,{{Cite book |last1=Simon |first1=Eugène |date=1876 |contribution=10e Genre – Icius E. S. |title=Les arachnides de France |volume=3 |pages=54–60 |publication-place=Paris |publisher=Roret }} belonging to the Order Araneae, Family Salticidae.{{cite web|author=World Spider Catalog|year=2023|title=Gen. Icius Simon, 1876|url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2706|website=World Spider Catalog|publisher=Natural History Museum|place=Bern|version=24.0|accessdate=9 July 2023}}

Distribution

Icius is an almost cosmopolitan genus, widespread in Europe (mainly in Belgium, Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Poland, Romania, Portugal, southern Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Spain and in The Netherlands), as well in Asia, Africa and in Central and South America (one species, Icius pallidulus is endemic of Micronesia).{{cite web|first=Jerzy|last=Proszynski|title=Gen. Icius Simon, 1876|website=Catalogue of Salticidae (Araneae): Synthesis of Quotations in the World Literature since 1758|year=2005|url=http://salticidae.org/salticid/catalog/icius.htm|accessdate=13 July 2017}}

Species

As of July 2023, the World Spider Catalog lists the following species in the genus:

References

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