Siler (spider)

{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}

{{About|a genus of spiders|other uses|Siler (disambiguation){{!}}Siler}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Siler

| image = Siler_cupreus.jpg

| image_caption = S. cupreus from Japan

| authority = Simon, 1889

| type_species = S. cupreus

| type_species_authority = Simon, 1889

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 9, see text

| synonyms =

• Silerella Strand, 1906{{cite journal| last=Prószyński| first=J.| year=1984| title=Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae (Araneae)| journal=Wyższa Szkola Rolniczo-Pedagogiczna, Siedlcach| volume=2| page=135}}

| synonyms_ref =

}}

Siler is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1889.{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1889| title=Etudes arachnologiques. 21e Mémoire. XXXIII. Descriptions de quelques espèces receillies au Japon, par A. Mellotée| journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France| pages=248–252| volume=8| issue=6| author-link=Eugène Simon}} They specialize in hunting ants.{{Cite journal|last1=Jackson|first1=RR|last2=Van Olphen|first2=A|date=May 1992|title=Prey-capture techniques and prey preferences of Chrysilla, Natta and Siler, ant-eating jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) from Kenya and Sri Lanka|url=https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1992.tb04351.x|journal=Journal of Zoology|volume=227|issue=1|pages=163–170|doi=10.1111/j.1469-7998.1992.tb04351.x|url-access=subscription}}