Biology:Avitus (spider)
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Short description: Genus of spiders
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Avitus Peckham & Peckham, 1896[1] |
| Type species | |
| A. diolenii Peckham & Peckham, 1896
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Avitus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1896.[2]
Species
(As of June 2019) it contains six species, found in Brazil , Panama, Argentina , and on the Greater Antilles:[1]
- Avitus anumbi Mello-Leitão, 1940 – Brazil
- Avitus castaneonotatus Mello-Leitão, 1939 – Argentina
- Avitus diolenii Peckham & Peckham, 1896 (type) – Panama
- Avitus longidens Simon, 1901 – Argentina
- Avitus taylori (Peckham & Peckham, 1901) – Jamaica
- Avitus variabilis Mello-Leitão, 1945 – Argentina
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). Gen. Avitus Peckham & Peckham, 1896. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2526. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
- ↑ Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1896). "Spiders of the family Attidae from Central America and Mexico". Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 3: 1–101.
Wikidata ☰ Q294973 entry
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