Saitissus

{{Short description|Genus of spiders}} {{Speciesbox | taxon = Saitissus squamosus | authority = Roewer, 1938 | parent_authority = Roewer, 1938<ref name=NMBE /> }} '''''Saitissus''''' is a monotypic genus of Papuan jumping spiders containing the single species, '''''Saitissus squamosus'''''. It was first described by Carl Friedrich Roewer in 1938,<ref name=Roew1938>{{citation| last=Roewer| first=C. F.| year=1938| contribution=Araneae| title=Résultats scientifiques du Voyage aux indes orientales néerlandaises de la SS| author-link=Carl_Friedrich_Roewer}}</ref> and is found only in Papua New Guinea.<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Saitissus Roewer, 1938| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-09-23| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2939| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref> The genus name is derived from the similar genus ''Saitis''. The species name is Latin for "scaly".<ref name=Roew1938 />

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Category:Spiders of New Guinea Category:Monotypic Salticidae genera Category:Salticidae Category:Taxa named by Carl Friedrich Roewer