Omoedus

Omoedus is a genus of jumping spiders (family Salticidae).^[1]

Omoedus
Omoedus swiftorum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Omoedus Thorell, 1881[1]
Type species
O. niger Thorell, 1881
Species
7, see text

Taxonomy

Omoedus was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1881.^[1][2] In 2015, Junxia Zhang and Wayne Maddison synonymized Pystira with Omoedus,^[3] but this was rejected by rejected by Jerzy Prószyński in 2017,^[4] and both genera are accepted by the World Spider Catalog as of August 2020^[update].^[1][5]

The genus is placed in the subfamily Salticinae, tribe Euophryini.^[6]

Species

As of August 2019^[update] it contains seven species, found on Fiji, in Papua New Guinea, on the Aru Islands, and the Moluccas:^[1]

• Omoedus cordatus Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1996 – Fiji
• Omoedus insultans (Thorell, 1881) – New Guinea
• Omoedus kulczynskii Prószyński, 1971 – New Guinea
• Omoedus niger Thorell, 1881 (type) – New Guinea
• Omoedus piceus Simon, 1902 – Indonesia (Moluccas), New Guinea
• Omoedus sexualis (Strand, 1911) – Indonesia (Aru Is.)
• Omoedus torquatus (Simon, 1902) – Indonesia (Moluccas)