''Saaristattus'' is a

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of Malaysian

jumping spiders Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. As of 2019, this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders at 13% of all species. Jumping spi ...

containing the single species, ''Saaristattus tropicus''. It was first described by D. V. Logunov & G. N. Azarkina in 2008, and is found only in

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

. The name is a combination of

Michael Saaristo Michael I. Saaristo (1938 – 27 April 2008) was a Finnish arachnologist, with a particular interest in the spiders of the Seychelles. The World Spider Catalog lists 61 genus names or synonyms and 109 species names or synonyms of which he is the s ...

and ''attus'', a common suffix for salticid genera, meaning "jumper". The species name means "tropical".

References

Invertebrates of Malaysia Monotypic Salticidae genera Salticidae Spiders of Asia {{Jumping-spider-stub