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{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{For|the play by Robert Greene|Selimus (play)}}
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| taxon = Selimus venustus
| authority = Peckham & Peckham, 1901
| parent_authority = Peckham & Peckham, 1901<ref name=NMBE />
}}
'''''Selimus''''' is a [[monotypic taxon|monotypic]] [[genus]] of Brazilian [[Salticidae|jumping spiders]] containing the single species, '''''Selimus venustus'''''. It was first described by [[George and Elizabeth Peckham]] in 1901,<ref name=Peck1901>{{cite journal| last1=Peckham| first1=G. W.| last2=Peckham| first2=E. G.| year=1901| title=Spiders of the ''Phidippus'' group of the family Attidae| journal=Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters| pages=282–358| volume=13| author-link=George_and_Elizabeth_Peckham| author-link2=George_and_Elizabeth_Peckham}}</ref> known from a single male found in [[Brazil]].<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Selimus Peckham & Peckham, 1901| 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/2951| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> The species name is derived from [[Latin]] ''venustus'' "charming".<ref name=Peck1901 />
In 2006 Michael Saaristo erroneously erected a genus of the same name in the family [[Theridiidae]] for the species ''[[Anelosimus placens]]''.
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