Saitissus

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{Speciesbox

| taxon = Saitissus squamosus

| authority = Roewer, 1938

| parent_authority = Roewer, 1938

}}

Saitissus is a monotypic genus of Papuan jumping spiders containing the single species, Saitissus squamosus. It was first described by Carl Friedrich Roewer in 1938,{{citation| last=Roewer| first=C. F.| year=1938| contribution=Araneae| title=Résultats scientifiques du Voyage aux indes orientales néerlandaises de la SS| author-link=Carl_Friedrich_Roewer}} and is found only in Papua New Guinea.{{cite journal| title=Gen. Saitissus Roewer, 1938| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-09-23| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2939| doi=10.24436/2}} The genus name is derived from the similar genus Saitis. The species name is Latin for "scaly".