Lagnus

Lagnus is a spider genus of the jumping spider family, Salticidae. It occurs only in the Philippines and Fiji.^[1]

Lagnus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Lagnus L. Koch, 1879[1]
Type species
Lagnus longimanus L. Koch, 1879[1]
Diversity[1]
3 species

Name

The species name longimanus is Latin for "with a long hand".

Species

As of April 2017^[update], the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:^[1]

• Lagnus edwardsi Zhang & Maddison, 2012 – Philippines
• Lagnus longimanus L. Koch, 1879 (type species) – Fiji
• Lagnus monteithorum Patoleta, 2008 – Fiji