''Sittisax'' is one of a number of genera that were split off from the broadly defined genus ''Sitticus'' (now ''
Attulus
''Attulus'' is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1889. The name is a diminutive form of a common prefix for salticid genera, '.
Taxonomy
In 1889, Eugène Simon separated the genus ''Attulus'' from the ...
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Jerzy Prószyński
Jerzy Prószyński (born 1935 in Warsaw) is a Polish arachnologist specializing in systematics of jumping spiders (family Salticidae). He is a graduate of the University of Warsaw, a long-term employee of the Siedlce University of Natural Scienc ...
in 2016 and 2017. ''Sittisax'' was erected in 2017, with the type species '' Euophrys saxicola''. The generic name is derived from the first parts of the generic and specific names of ''Sitticus saxicola'', the name used for the type species before transfer to ''Sittisax''.