Athamas (spider)

For the mythological Greek king, see Athamas.

Athamas
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Athamas
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877[1]
Type species
A. whitmeei
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877
Species

7, see text

Athamas is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1877.[2] The name is derived from Athamas, the king of Orchomenus in Greek mythology.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference NMBE was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1877). "On some new species of Araneidea, with characters of two new genera and some remarks on the families Podophthalmides and Dinopides". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 45 (3): 557–578.