Pignus

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Pignus

| authority = Wesolowska, 2000

| type_species = P. simoni

| type_species_authority = (Peckham & Peckham, 1903)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = {{Specieslist

| P. lautissimum|Wesolowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 – Tanzania

| P. pongola|Wesolowska & Haddad, 2009 – South Africa

| P. simoni|(Peckham & Peckham, 1903) – Zimbabwe, South Africa}}

}}

Pignus is a genus of African jumping spiders that was first described by Wanda Wesołowska in 2000.{{cite journal| last=Wesolowska| first=W.| year=2000| title=New and little known species of jumping spiders from Zimbabwe (Araneae: Salticidae)| journal=Arnoldia Zimbabwe| pages=145–174| volume=10| author-link=Wanda Wesołowska}} {{as of|2019|08}} it contains only three species, found only in Africa: P. lautissimum, P. pongola, and P. simoni.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Pignus Wesolowska, 2000| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-09-11| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2888| doi=10.24436/2}}