Parnaenus

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Parnaenus cyanidens.jpg

| image_caption = Parnaenus cyanidens

| taxon = Parnaenus

| authority = Peckham & Peckham, 1896

| type_species = P. cyanidens

| type_species_authority = (C. L. Koch, 1846)

| subdivision = {{Specieslist

| P. cuspidatus|F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 – Guatemala, El Salvador

| P. cyanidens|(C. L. Koch, 1846) – Guatemala to Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Guyana

| P. metallicus|(C. L. Koch, 1846) – Brazil, Argentina}}

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Parnaenus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1896.{{cite journal| last1=Peckham| first1=G. W.| last2=Peckham| first2=E. G.| year=1896| title=Spiders of the family Attidae from Central America and Mexico| journal=Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin| pages=1–101| volume=3| author-link=George and Elizabeth Peckham| author-link2=George and Elizabeth Peckham}} {{as of|2019|08}} it contains only three species, found only in South America, El Salvador, and Guatemala: P. cuspidatus, P. cyanidens, and P. metallicus.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Parnaenus Peckham & Peckham, 1896| 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/2864| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}