Amycus (spider)
| Amycus | |
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| A. albipalpus | |
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: | Amycus C. L. Koch, 1846[1] |
| Type species | |
| A. igneus (Perty, 1833)
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| Species | |
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12, see text | |
Amycus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1846.[2]
Species
[edit]As of June 2019[update] it contains twelve species, found only in South America and Mexico:[1]
- Amycus albipalpus Galvis, 2015 – Colombia
- Amycus amrishi Makhan, 2006 – Suriname
- Amycus annulatus Simon, 1900 – Brazil
- Amycus ectypus Simon, 1900 – Peru, Brazil
- Amycus equulus Simon, 1900 – Brazil
- Amycus flavicomis Simon, 1900 – Brazil, Argentina
- Amycus flavolineatus C. L. Koch, 1846 – Mexico
- Amycus igneus (Perty, 1833) (type) – Brazil
- Amycus lycosiformis Taczanowski, 1878 – Peru
- Amycus pertyi Simon, 1900 – Peru, French Guiana
- Amycus rufifrons Simon, 1900 – Brazil
- Amycus spectabilis C. L. Koch, 1846 – Colombia, Peru, Brazil
References
[edit]- ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Amycus C. L. Koch, 1846". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
- ^ Koch, C. L. (1846). Die Arachniden. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, Dreizehnter Band, pp. , Vierzehnter Band, pp. 1-88. pp. 1–234.
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