Jotus

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Jotus auripes.jpg

| image_caption =Jotus auripes

| taxon = Jotus

| authority = L. Koch, 1881

| type_species = Jotus auripes

| type_species_authority = L. Koch, 1881

| range_map =

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

}}

Jotus is a spider genus of the family Salticidae (jumping spiders), native to Australia, New Zealand, and Indonesia.{{cite web|url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genusdetail/2719|title=Jotus L. Koch , 1881 - Taxon details|website=World Spider Catalog|access-date=December 3, 2020}}{{cite journal|last1=Otto|first1=Jürgen C|last2=Hill|first2=David E|title=Males of a new species of Jotus from Australia wave a paddle-shaped lure to solicit nearby females (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini)|journal=Peckhamia|date=2016|volume=133|issue=1|pages=1–39|issn=2161-8526}}{{Cite journal|last=Baehr|first=Barbara C.|last2=Schubert|first2=Joseph|last3=Harms|first3=Danilo|date=2019|title=The Brushed Jumping Spiders (Araneae, Salticidae, Jotus L. Koch, 1881) from Eastern Australia|url=https://evolsyst.pensoft.net/article/34496/|journal=Evolutionary Systematics|volume=3|issue=1|pages=53–73|doi=10.3897/evolsyst.3.34496|doi-access=free}} There are thought to be many as yet undescribed species in southern Australia.