Colyttus

For the deme of ancient Greece, see Collytus.

Colyttus is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1891.^[3] C. lehtinen is named in honor of Finnish arachnologist Pekka T. Lehtinen.

Colyttus
male C. bilineatus from Thailand
female C. bilineatus from Thailand
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Colyttus Thorell, 1891[1]
Type species
C. bilineatus Thorell, 1891
Species
7, see text
Synonyms[1]
Donoessus Simon, 1902[2]

Species

As of June 2019^[update] it contains eight species, found only in Asia:^[1]

• Colyttus bilineatus Thorell, 1891 (type) – Indonesia (Sumatra, Moluccas)
• Colyttus kerinci (Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Colyttus lehtineni Zabka, 1985 – China, Vietnam
• Colyttus nigriceps (Simon, 1899) – Indonesia (Sumatra)
• Colyttus proszynskii Caleb, Chatterjee, Tyagi, Kundu & Kumar, 2018 – India
• Colyttus robustus Zhang & Maddison, 2012 – Malaysia
• Colyttus striatus (Simon, 1902) – Borneo
• Colyttus yiwui Lin & Li, 2020 - China