Orienticius

Orienticius is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae. It was first described in 2016 by Prószyński. As of 2017^[update], it contains 2 species.^[1]

Orienticius
Orienticius vulpes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Orienticius Prószyński, 2016[1]
Type species
Orienticius vulpes
Species
Orienticius chinensis (Logunov, 1995) Orienticius vulpes (Grube, 1861)

Taxonomy

The genus Orienticius was one of a number of new genera erected by Jerzy Prószyński in 2016, largely for species formerly placed in Pseudicius.^[2] In Wayne Maddison's 2015 classification of the family Salticidae, Pseudicius, broadly circumscribed, is part of the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae.^[3]