Philaeus

For other uses, see Philaeus (disambiguation).

Philaeus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1869.^[2] Philaeus maoniuensis was moved to genus Yllenus in 2003.^[1]

Philaeus
male Philaeus chrysops
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Philaeus Thorell, 1869[1]
Type species
P. chrysops (Poda, 1761)
Species
7, see text

Species

As of August 2019^[update] it contains seven species with a wide distribution. Most species are from the Mediterranean and West Africa, but single species are known from Guatemala and the Galapagos Islands:^[1]

• Philaeus chrysops (Poda, 1761) (type) – Europe, North Africa to Middle East, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, Central Asia, Afghanistan, China, Mongolia, Korea
• Philaeus corrugatulus Strand, 1917 – Algeria
• Philaeus daoxianensis Peng, Gong & Kim, 2000 – China
• Philaeus fallax (Lucas, 1846) – Algeria
• Philaeus raribarbis Denis, 1955 – Morocco
• Philaeus ruber Peckham & Peckham, 1885 – Guatemala
• Philaeus steudeli Strand, 1906 – West Africa