Jotus

Jotus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Euophryinae
Genus:	Jotus L. Koch, 1881
Type species
Jotus auripes L. Koch, 1881
Species
see text
Diversity
9 species

Jotus is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). A ninth species (J remus) was named in 2016.^[1]

Species

• Jotus auripes L. Koch, 1881 — New South Wales
• Jotus braccatus L. Koch, 1881 — Queensland
• Jotus debilis L. Koch, 1881 — New South Wales
• Jotus frosti Peckham & Peckham, 1901 — Victoria
• Jotus insulanus Rainbow, 1920 — Lord Howe Island
• Jotus maculivertex Strand, 1911 — Kei Islands
• Jotus minutus L. Koch, 1881 — Queensland
• Jotus ravus (Urquhart, 1893) — New Zealand
• Jotus remus Otto & Hill, 2016 — New South Wales

References

1. Otto, Jürgen C; Hill, David E (7 January 2016). "Males of a new species of Jotus from Australia wave a paddle-shaped lure to solicit nearby females (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini)". Peckhamia. 133 (1): 1–39. ISSN 2161-8526.

• Platnick, Norman I. (2016): The world spider catalog, version 17.0. American Museum of Natural History.