Coccorchestes is a genus of South Pacific jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1881.[2]

Coccorchestes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Coccorchestes
Thorell, 1881[1]
Type species
C. rufipes
Thorell, 1881
Species

40, see text

Species edit

As of June 2019 it contains forty species, almost all occurring in Papua New Guinea, with one species found in Australia and one in New Britain:[1]

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Gen. Coccorchestes Thorell, 1881". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-07-06.
  2. ^ Thorell, T. (1881). "Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 17: 1–727.