''Dendryphantes'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

jumping spiders Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. , this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiderscomprising 13% of spider species. Jumping s ...

that was first described by

Carl Ludwig Koch Carl Ludwig Koch (21 September 1778 – 23 August 1857) was a German entomologist and arachnologist. He was responsible for classifying a great number of spiders, including the Brazilian whiteknee tarantula and common house spider. He was born ...

in 1837.

Species

it contains sixty-nine species, found in Africa, Asia, South America, the Caribbean, Europe, North America, and on

Saint Helena Saint Helena (, ) is one of the three constituent parts of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, a remote British overseas territory. Saint Helena is a volcanic and tropical island, located in the South Atlantic Ocean, some 1,874 km ...

: *'' D. acutus'' Wesolowska & Haddad, 2014 – Lesotho, South Africa *'' D. aethiopicus'' Wesolowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia *'' D. amphibolus''

Chamberlin The Chamberlin is an electro-mechanical keyboard instrument that was a precursor to the Mellotron. It was developed and patented by the American inventor Harry Chamberlin from 1949 to 1956, when the first model was introduced. There are several ...

, 1916 – Peru *'' D. andinus'' Chamberlin, 1916 – Peru *'' D. arboretus'' Wesolowska & Cumming, 2008 – Zimbabwe *'' D. barguzinensis'' Danilov, 1997 – Russia (southern

Siberia Siberia ( ; , ) is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has formed a part of the sovereign territory of Russia and its predecessor states ...

) *'' D. barrosmachadoi'' Caporiacco, 1955 – Venezuela *'' D. biankii'' Prószyński, 1979 – Russia (central and southern Siberia,

Russian Far East The Russian Far East ( rus, Дальний Восток России, p=ˈdalʲnʲɪj vɐˈstok rɐˈsʲiɪ) is a region in North Asia. It is the easternmost part of Russia and the Asia, Asian continent, and is coextensive with the Far Easte ...

), Mongolia, China *'' D. bisquinquepunctatus''

Taczanowski Taczanowski (Polish feminine: Taczanowska; plural: Taczanowscy) is the surname of a Polish szlachta (nobility) family from Poznań bearing the Jastrzębiec coat of arms and the motto: ''Plus penser que dire''. They took their name from their ...

, 1878 – Peru *'' D. calus'' Chamberlin, 1916 – Peru *'' D. caporiaccoi'' Roewer, 1951 –

Karakorum Karakorum (Khalkha Mongolian: Хархорум, ''Kharkhorum''; Mongolian script:, ''Qaraqorum'') was the capital city, capital of the Mongol Empire between 1235 and 1260 and of the Northern Yuan, Northern Yuan dynasty in the late 14th and 1 ...

*'' D. centromaculatus'' Taczanowski, 1878 – Peru *'' D. chuldensis'' Prószyński, 1982 – Mongolia *'' D. comatus'' Karsch, 1880 – Syria *'' D. czekanowskii'' Prószyński, 1979 – Russia (Urals to Russian Far East), Japan *'' D. darchan'' Logunov, 1993 – Mongolia *'' D. duodecempunctatus'' Mello-Leitão, 1943 – Argentina *'' D. elgonensis'' Wesolowska & Dawidowicz, 2014 – Kenya *'' D. fulvipes'' (Mello-Leitão, 1943) – Chile *'' D. fulviventris'' (Lucas, 1846) – Algeria *'' D. fusconotatus'' (Grube, 1861) – Russia (Urals to Russian Far East), Mongolia, China *'' D. hararensis'' Wesolowska & Cumming, 2008 – Zimbabwe, South Africa *'' D. hastatus'' (Clerck, 1757) (

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) – Europe, Russia (

European Russia European Russia is the western and most populated part of the Russia, Russian Federation. It is geographically situated in Europe, as opposed to the country's sparsely populated and vastly larger eastern part, Siberia, which is situated in Asia ...

to central and southern Siberia), Kazakhstan, China *'' D. hewitti'' Lessert, 1925 – Kenya, Tanzania *'' D. holmi'' Wesolowska & Dawidowicz, 2014 – Kenya *'' D. honestus'' (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Brazil *'' D. legibilis'' (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile *'' D. lepidus'' (Peckham & Peckham, 1901) – Brazil *'' D. limpopo'' Wesolowska & Haddad, 2013 – South Africa *'' D. linzhiensis'' Hu, 2001 – China *'' D. luridus'' Wesolowska & Dawidowicz, 2014 – Kenya *'' D. madrynensis'' Mello-Leitão, 1940 – Argentina *'' D. matumi'' Haddad & Wesolowska, 2013 – South Africa *'' D. mendicus'' (C. L. Koch, 1846) –

Caribbean The Caribbean ( , ; ; ; ) is a region in the middle of the Americas centered around the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, mostly overlapping with the West Indies. Bordered by North America to the north, Central America ...

*'' D. minutus'' Wesolowska & Dawidowicz, 2014 – Kenya *'' D. modestus'' (Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Argentina *'' D. mordax'' (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Chile, Argentina, Uruguay *'' D. neethlingi'' Haddad & Wesolowska, 2013 – South Africa *'' D. nicator'' Wesolowska & van Harten, 1994 – Yemen *'' D. nigromaculatus'' ( Keyserling, 1885) – USA *'' D. niveornatus'' Mello-Leitão, 1936 – Chile *'' D. nobilis'' (C. L. Koch, 1846) – South America *'' D. ovchinnikovi'' Logunov & Marusik, 1994 – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan *'' D. patagonicus'' Simon, 1905 – Argentina *'' D. potanini'' Logunov, 1993 – China *'' D. praeposterus'' Denis, 1958 – Afghanistan *'' D. pseudochuldensis'' Peng, Xie & Kim, 1994 – China *'' D. pugnax'' (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Mexico *'' D. purcelli'' Peckham & Peckham, 1903 – St. Helena, South Africa, Lesotho *'' D. quaesitus'' Wesolowska & van Harten, 1994 – Yemen *'' D. rafalskii'' Wesolowska, 2000 – Zimbabwe, South Africa *'' D. ravidus'' (Simon, 1868) – Lithuania, Belarus? *'' D. reimoseri'' Roewer, 1951 – Brazil *'' D. rudis'' (

Sundevall Carl Jakob Sundevall (22 October 1801 in Högestad – 2 February 1875) was a Swedish zoologist. Sundevall studied at Lund University, where he received a Ph.D. in 1823. After traveling to East Asia, he studied medicine, graduating as a Doctor ...

, 1833) – Europe, Turkey,

Caucasus The Caucasus () or Caucasia (), is a region spanning Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is situated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, comprising parts of Southern Russia, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. The Caucasus Mountains, i ...

, Russia (European Russia to Russian Far East), Kazakhstan *'' D. sacci'' Simon, 1886 – Bolivia *'' D. sanguineus'' Wesolowska, 2011 – Zimbabwe *'' D. schultzei'' Simon, 1910 – Namibia, South Africa *'' D. secretus'' Wesolowska, 1995 – Kazakhstan *'' D. sedulus'' ( Blackwall, 1865) – Cape Verde Is. *'' D. seriatus'' Taczanowski, 1878 – Peru *'' D. serratus'' Wesolowska & Dawidowicz, 2014 – Kenya *'' D. sexguttatus'' (Mello-Leitão, 1945) – Argentina *'' D. silvestris'' Wesolowska & Haddad, 2013 – South Africa *'' D. strenuus'' (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Mexico *'' D. subtilis'' Wesolowska & Dawidowicz, 2014 – Kenya *'' D. tuvinensis'' Logunov, 1991 – Russia (southern Siberia), Kazakhstan, Mongolia *'' D. villarrica'' Richardson, 2010 – Chile *'' D. yadongensis'' Hu, 2001 – China *'' D. zygoballoides'' Chamberlin, 1924 – Mexico

References

External links

Photograph of ''D. rudis''
Salticidae genera Cosmopolitan spiders Salticidae Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Koch {{Jumping-spider-stub