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Chinattus

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Chinattus
Female Chinattus parvulus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Chinattus
Logunov, 1999[1]
Type species
C. undulatus
(Song & Chai, 1992)
Species

17, see text

Chinattus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by D. V. Logunov in 1999.[2] The name is a combination of "China" and -attus, a common suffix for salticid genera.

Species

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As of June 2019 it contains seventeen species, most occurring in China and nearby countries, with C. caucasicus reaching into Iran, and C. parvulus in North America:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Chinattus Logunov, 1999". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. ^ Logunov, D. V. (1999). "Redefinition of the genus Habrocestoides Prószyński, 1992, with establishment of a new genus, Chinattus gen n. (Araneae: Salticidae)". Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society. 11: 139–149.