Xenocytaea

Xenocytaea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Euophryinae
Genus: Xenocytaea
Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998
Type species
Xenocytaea triramosa
Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1998
Species

see text

Diversity
5 species

Xenocytaea is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).

Of all 150 salticid genera known from Australia and the entire Pacific, only Chalcotropis, Donoessus and Panysinus resemble Xenocytaea.

Name

The genus name is a combination of Greek ξένος "strange, foreign" and the salticid genus Cytaea. Indicates that despite the similarity of the two genera in male palpal structure, this group of species does not belong in Cytaea.

Species

References

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