# Caribattus > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Caribattus > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Caribattus.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribattus > Source revision: 1345660304 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Speciesbox | taxon = Caribattus inutilis | authority = (Peckham & Peckham, 1901) | parent_authority = Bryant, 1950 }} '''''Caribattus''''' is a [monotypic](/source/monotypic_taxon) [genus](/source/genus) of [jumping spiders](/source/Salticidae) containing the single species, '''''Caribattus inutilis'''''. It was first described by E. B. Bryant in 1950,{{cite journal| last=Bryant| first=E. B.| year=1950| title=The salticid spiders of Jamaica| journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology| pages=163–209| volume=103}} and is only found on the [Greater Antilles](/source/Greater_Antilles).{{cite journal| title=Gen. Caribattus Bryant, 1950| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-07-05| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2559| doi=10.24436/2}} The name is derived from "[Caribbean](/source/Caribbean)", and ''-attus'', a common suffix for salticid genera. The species name ''inutilis'' is Latin for "useless". ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Taxonbar|from1=Q14624275|from2=Q943233}} Category:Endemic fauna of Jamaica Category:Monotypic Salticidae genera Category:Salticidae Category:Spiders of the Caribbean Category:Spiders of the Dominican Republic {{Salticoida-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Caribattus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribattus) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribattus?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.