Caribattus

Taxobox
name = "Caribattus"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
familia = Salticidae
subfamilia = Euophryinae
tribus = Saitini
genus = "Caribattus"
genus_authority = Bryant, 1950
diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Caribattus
diversity = 1 species
species = "C. inutilis"
binomial = "Caribattus inutilis"
binomial_authority = (Peckham & Peckham, 1901)
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synonyms ="Saitis inutilis"

"Caribattus" is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders) with the single described species "C. inutilis". It occurs on Jamaica.

Name

The genus name is combined from Caribbean and the common ending for salticid genera "-attus". The species name "inutilis" is Latin for "useless".

References

* (2007): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.0. "American Museum of Natural History".