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{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Saitis
| image = Saitis_barbipes_MHNT_Male_Face2.jpg
| image_caption = ''Saitis barbipes'' (male)
| authority = [[Eugène Simon|Simon]], 1876<ref name=NMBE />
| type_species = ''[[Saitis barbipes|Euophrys barbipes]]''<ref name=NMBE/>
| type_species_authority =  Canestrini & Pavesi, 1868
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 32, [[#Species|see text]]
}}
'''''Saitis''''' is a [[genus]] of [[Salticidae|jumping spiders]] that was first described by [[Eugène Simon|Eugène Louis Simon]] in 1876.<ref name=Simo1876>{{cite book| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1876| title=Les arachnides de France. Tome troisième| publisher=Roret, Paris| author-link=Eugène Simon}}</ref> The Australian species may belong to other genera, such as ''[[Maratus]]''.
==Species==
{{as of|2019|08}} it contains thirty-two species, found worldwide:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Saitis Simon, 1876| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| accessdate=2019-09-23| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2938| doi=10.24436/2| last1=Gloor| first1=Daniel| last2=Nentwig| first2=Wolfgang| last3=Blick| first3=Theo| last4=Kropf| first4=Christian}}</ref>
*''[[Saitis annae]]'' <small>Cockerell, 1894</small> – [[Jamaica]]
*''[[Saitis aranukanus]]'' <small>[[Carl Friedrich Roewer|Roewer]], 1944</small> – [[Kiribati]] (Gilbert Is.)
*''[[Saitis ariadneae]]'' <small>Logunov, 2001</small> – [[Greece]] ([[Crete]])
*''[[Saitis auberti]]'' <small>[[Lucien Berland|Berland]], 1938</small> – [[Vanuatu]]
*''[[Saitis barbipes]]'' <small>(Simon, 1868)</small> ([[Type species|type]]) – Northern Africa, southern Europe to Turkey
*''[[Saitis berlandi]]'' <small>Roewer, 1951</small> – Vanuatu
*''[[Saitis breviusculus]]'' <small>Simon, 1901</small> – [[Gabon]]
*''[[Saitis catulus]]'' <small>Simon, 1901</small> – [[Venezuela]]
*''[[Saitis chaperi]]'' <small>Simon, 1885</small> – [[India]], [[Sri Lanka]]
*''[[Saitis cupidon]]'' <small>(Simon, 1885)</small> – [[New Caledonia]]
*''[[Saitis cyanipes]]'' <small>Simon, 1901</small> – [[Brazil]]
*''[[Saitis graecus]]'' <small>[[Władysław Kulczyński|Kulczyński]], 1905</small> – [[Albania]], Greece, [[Bulgaria]]
*''[[Saitis imitatus]]'' <small>(Simon, 1868)</small> – [[Croatia]], [[Montenegro]]
*''[[Saitis insectus]]'' <small>([[Henry Roughton Hogg|Hogg]], 1896)</small> – Central Australia
*''[[Saitis insulanus]]'' <small>Rainbow, 1920</small> – [[Australia]] (Lord Howe Is.)
*''[[Saitis kandyensis]]'' <small>Kim, Ye & Oh, 2013</small> – Sri Lanka
*''[[Saitis lacustris]]'' <small>Hickman, 1944</small> – Central Australia
*''[[Saitis latifrons]]'' <small>[[Lodovico di Caporiacco|Caporiacco]], 1928</small> – [[Libya]]
*''[[Saitis magniceps]]'' <small>([[Eugen von Keyserling|Keyserling]], 1882)</small> – Australia ([[Queensland]])
*''[[Saitis marcusi]]'' <small>Soares & [[Hélio Ferraz de Almeida Camargo|Camargo]], 1948</small> – Brazil
*''[[Saitis mutans]]'' <small>Otto & Hill, 2012</small> – Australia ([[New South Wales]])
*''[[Saitis nanus]]'' <small>Soares & Camargo, 1948</small> – Brazil
*''[[Saitis perplexides]]'' <small>([[Embrik Strand|Strand]], 1908)</small> – Jamaica
*''[[Saitis relucens]]'' <small>([[Tamerlan Thorell|Thorell]], 1877)</small> – [[Indonesia]] ([[Sulawesi]])
*''[[Saitis sengleti]]'' <small>(Metzner, 1999)</small> – Greece (incl. Crete)
*''[[Saitis signatus]]'' <small>(Keyserling, 1883)</small> – Unknown
*''[[Saitis spinosus]]'' <small>([[Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão|Mello-Leitão]], 1945)</small> – [[Argentina]]
*''[[Saitis splendidus]]'' <small>([[Charles Athanase Walckenaer|Walckenaer]], 1837)</small> – Timor
*''[[Saitis taeniatus]]'' <small>Keyserling, 1883</small> – Australia
*''[[Saitis tauricus]]'' <small>Kulczyński, 1905</small> – [[Italy]], [[Hungary]], [[Macedonia (region)|Macedonia]], Bulgaria, Greece, [[Turkey]], [[Ukraine]]
*''[[Saitis variegatus]]'' <small>Mello-Leitão, 1941</small> – Argentina
*''[[Saitis virgatus]]'' <small>Otto & Hill, 2012</small> – Australia (New South Wales)
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
* [http://salticus.zoology.ubc.ca/salticid/diagnost/saitis/bar-hol-ph.htm Photograph of ''S. barbipes'']
==Further reading==
* {{cite journal| first=David Edwin| last=Hill| year=2009| title=Euophryine jumping spiders that extend their third legs during courtship (Araneaee: Salticidia: Euophryinae: ''Maratus'', ''Saitis'')| journal=Peckhamia| volume=74| issue=1| pages=1–27}}
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[[Category:Salticidae genera]]
[[Category:Salticidae]]
[[Category:Spiders of Africa]]
[[Category:Spiders of Asia]]
[[Category:Spiders of Oceania]]
[[Category:Spiders of South America]]
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