{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Speciesbox | taxon = Parasaitis femoralis | authority = Bryant, 1950 | parent_authority = Bryant, 1950<ref name=NMBE /> }} '''''Parasaitis''''' is a monotypic genus of jumping spiders containing the single species, '''''Parasaitis femoralis'''''. It was first described by E. B. Bryant in 1950,<ref name=Brya1950>{{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}}</ref> and is only found on the Greater Antilles.<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Parasaitis Bryant, 1950| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-09-08| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2862| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> The name is a combination of the Ancient Greek "para" ({{lang|grc|παρά}}), meaning "alongside", and the salticid genus ''Saitis''.<ref name=Brya1950 />
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Category:Endemic fauna of Jamaica Category:Monotypic Salticidae genera Category:Salticidae Category:Spiders of the Caribbean
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