# Compsodecta

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{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Compsodecta 02.jpg
| image_caption = Female, species unknown
| taxon = Compsodecta
| authority = [Simon](/source/Eug%C3%A8ne_Simon), 1903<ref name=NMBE />
| type_species = ''[C. grisea](/source/Compsodecta_grisea)''
| type_species_authority = (Peckham & Peckham, 1901)
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 8, see text
| synonyms = 
*''Paradecta'' <small>Bryant, 1950</small><ref name=Zhan2015>{{cite journal| last1=Zhang| first1=J. X.| last2=Maddison| first2=W. P.| year=2015| title=Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny| journal=Zootaxa| volume=3938| issue=1| page=18| doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1| pmid=25947489}}</ref>
| synonyms_ref = <ref name=NMBE />
}}
'''''Compsodecta''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [Caribbean](/source/Caribbean) [jumping spiders](/source/Salticidae) that was first described by [Eugène Louis Simon](/source/Eug%C3%A8ne_Simon) in 1903.<ref name=Simo1903>{{cite book| last=Simon| first=E| year=1903| title=Histoire naturelle des araignées| publisher=Roret | publication-place=Paris| doi=10.5962/bhl.title.51973| author-link=Eugène Simon}}</ref>

==Species==
{{as of|2019|06}} it contains eight species, found only in [Jamaica](/source/Jamaica) and on the [Greater Antilles](/source/Greater_Antilles):<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Compsodecta Simon, 1903| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-07-06| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=https://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2590| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref>
*''[Compsodecta darlingtoni](/source/Compsodecta_darlingtoni)'' <small>(Bryant, 1950)</small> – [Jamaica](/source/Jamaica)
*''[Compsodecta defloccata](/source/Compsodecta_defloccata)'' <small>(Peckham & Peckham, 1901)</small> – Jamaica
*''[Compsodecta festiva](/source/Compsodecta_festiva)'' <small>(Bryant, 1950)</small> – Jamaica
*''[Compsodecta gratiosa](/source/Compsodecta_gratiosa)'' <small>(Bryant, 1950)</small> – Jamaica
*''[Compsodecta grisea](/source/Compsodecta_grisea)'' <small>(Peckham & Peckham, 1901)</small> ([type](/source/Type_species)) – Jamaica
*''[Compsodecta haytiensis](/source/Compsodecta_haytiensis)'' <small>([Banks](/source/Nathan_Banks), 1903)</small> – [Hispaniola](/source/Hispaniola)
*''[Compsodecta peckhami](/source/Compsodecta_peckhami)'' <small>Bryant, 1943</small> – Hispaniola
*''[Compsodecta valida](/source/Compsodecta_valida)'' <small>(Bryant, 1950)</small> – Jamaica

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.miiz.waw.pl/salticid/diagnost/compsod/compsod.htm Diagnostic drawings of several species]

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Category:Salticidae genera
Category:Fauna of Jamaica
Category:Salticidae
Category:Spiders of the Caribbean
Category:Taxa named by Eugène Simon

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