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Athamas (spider)

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Athamas
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Athamas
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877[1]
Type species
A. whitmeei
O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877
Species

7, see text

Athamas is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1877.[2] The name is derived from Athamas, the king of Orchomenus in Greek mythology.

Species

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As of June 2019 it contains seven species, found on Vanuatu, Palau, in Papua New Guinea, on the Polynesian Islands, and Tahiti:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Athamas O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-05.
  2. ^ Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1877). "On some new species of Araneidea, with characters of two new genera and some remarks on the families Podophthalmides and Dinopides". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 45 (3): 557–578.

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