Xenocytaea

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}

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| taxon = Xenocytaea

| authority = Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998

| type_species = Xenocytaea triramosa

| type_species_authority = Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text.

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Xenocytaea is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae (jumping

spiders).{{cite journal|last1=Berry|first1=James W.|last2=Beatty|first2=Joseph A.|last3=Proszynski|first3=Jerzy|year=1998|title=Salticidae of the Pacific Islands. III. Distribution of Seven Genera, with Description of Nineteen New Species and Two New Genera|journal=Journal of Arachnology|volume=26|number=2|pages=149–189|url=http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v26_n2/JoA_v26_p149.pdf|access-date=20 March 2018}}

Of all 150 salticid genera known from Australia and the entire Pacific, only Chalcotropis, Donoessus and Panysinus resemble Xenocytaea.

Name

The genus name is a combination of Greek ξένος "strange, foreign" and the salticid genus Cytaea. This indicates that despite the similarity of the two genera in male palpal structure, this group of species does not belong in Cytaea.

Species

As of March 2018, the World Spider Catalog lists the following species in the genus:{{cite web|author=World Spider Catalog|year=2017|title=Gen. Xenocytaea Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998|website=World Spider Catalog|publisher=Natural History Museum|place=Bern|url=https://wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/3053/Xenocytaea|version=19.0|access-date=20 March 2018}}

References

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Category:Salticidae genera

Category:Spiders of Oceania

Category:Salticidae

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