Parajotus

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Parajotus

| authority = Peckham & Peckham, 1903

| type_species = P. obscurofemoratus

| type_species_authority = Peckham & Peckham, 1903

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = {{Specieslist

| P. cinereus|Wesolowska, 2004 – Congo, Uganda

| P. obscurofemoratus|Peckham & Peckham, 1903 – South Africa

| P. refulgens|Wesolowska, 2000 – Nigeria, Congo, Botswana, Zimbabwe}}

}}

Parajotus is a genus of African jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1903.{{cite journal| last1=Peckham| first1=G. W.| last2=Peckham| first2=E. G.| year=1903| title=New species of the family Attidae from South Africa, with notes on the distribution of the genera found in the Ethiopian region| journal=Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters| pages=173–278| volume=14| author-link=George and Elizabeth Peckham| author-link2=George and Elizabeth Peckham}} {{as of|2019|08}} it contains only three species, found only in Africa: P. cinereus, P. obscurofemoratus, and P. refulgens.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Parajotus Peckham & Peckham, 1903| 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/2855| doi=10.24436/2}} The name is a combination of the Ancient Greek "para" ({{lang|grc|παρά}}), meaning "alongside", and the related genus Jotus.