Parasaitis

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Speciesbox

| taxon = Parasaitis femoralis

| authority = Bryant, 1950

| parent_authority = Bryant, 1950

}}

Parasaitis is a monotypic genus of jumping spiders containing the single species, Parasaitis femoralis. It was first described by E. B. Bryant in 1950,{{cite journal| last=Bryant| first=E. B.| year=1950| title=The salticid spiders of Jamaica| journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology| pages=163–209| volume=103}} and is only found on the Greater Antilles.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Parasaitis Bryant, 1950| 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/2862| doi=10.24436/2}} The name is a combination of the Ancient Greek "para" ({{lang|grc|παρά}}), meaning "alongside", and the salticid genus Saitis.