Opisthoncus

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Opisthoncus

| image = Opisthoncus_mordax_male.jpg

| image_caption = Male Opisthoncus mordax

| image2 = Opisthoncus-polyphemus-dorsal.jpg

|image2_caption = Dorsal view of Opisthoncus polyphemus

| authority = L. Koch, 1880

| type_species = O. polyphemus

| type_species_authority = (L. Koch, 1867)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 32, see text

}}

Opisthoncus is a genus of South Pacific jumping spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1880.{{cite book| last=Koch| first=L.| year=1880| title=Die Arachniden Australiens| publisher=Nürnberg| pages=1157–1212| author-link=Ludwig Carl Christian Koch}} There are still many Australian species that have not yet been described.

Species

{{as of|2019|08}} it contains thirty-two species, found only in Papua New Guinea and Australia:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Opisthoncus L. Koch, 1880| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-09-08| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2831| doi=10.24436/2}}

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