# Parasaitis

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{{Short description|Genus of spiders}}
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| taxon = Parasaitis femoralis
| authority = Bryant, 1950
| parent_authority = Bryant, 1950<ref name=NMBE />
}}
'''''Parasaitis''''' is a [monotypic](/source/monotypic_taxon) [genus](/source/genus) of  [jumping spiders](/source/Salticidae) 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](/source/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](/source/Ancient_Greek) "para" ({{lang|grc|παρά}}), meaning "alongside", and the salticid genus ''[Saitis](/source/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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