Avitus (spider)

This article is about a genus of spiders. For other uses, see Avitus (disambiguation).

Avitus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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
Species

6, see text

Avitus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1896.[2]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference NMBE was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ 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.