Osericta

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Osericta

| authority = Simon, 1901

| type_species = O. dives

| type_species_authority = Simon, 1901

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = {{Specieslist

| O. cheliferoides|(Taczanowski, 1878) – Peru

| O. dives|Simon, 1901 – Brazil}}

}}

Osericta is a genus of South American jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1901.{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1901| title=Etudes arachnologiques. 31e Mémoire. L. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de la famille des Salticidae (suite)| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France| pages=66–76| volume=70| doi=10.1080/21686351.1901.12279318| author-link=Eugène Simon}} {{as of|2019|08}} it contains only two species, found only in Brazil and Peru: O. cheliferoides and O. dives.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Osericta Simon, 1901| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-09-08| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2836| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}