Colyttus Thorell, 1891

Pattammalsudhin, Puthoor & Sen, Souvik, 2025, Two new species of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Northeastern India, Zootaxa 5723 (2), pp. 281-291 : 285

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5723.2.7

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:76F2C342-89E1-462C-9C1B-F85B16EE46DA

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17894017

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F287C4-FF3C-D048-91D1-BACEFAA87D8C

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scientific name

Colyttus Thorell, 1891
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Genus Colyttus Thorell, 1891 View in CoL

Type species. Colyttus bilineatus Thorell, 1891 View in CoL .

Comments. Colyttus is a poorly known genus occurring in the Oriental region, with records from Borneo, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam ( World Spider Catalog 2025). In India, it is represented by a single species, C. proszynskii Caleb, Chatterjee, Tyagi, Kundu & Kumar, 2018 ( Caleb et al. 2018; Caleb & Sankaran 2025). Members of Colyttus are medium-sized, bright, and colourful spiders, usually found on foliage.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Salticidae

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