Amycus (spider)

This article is about a genus of spiders. For other uses, see Amycus (disambiguation).

Amycus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1846.^[2]

Amycus
A. albipalpus
Scientific classification
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)
Species
12, see text

Species

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