Hypositticus

Hypositticus is a genus of spiders in the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). It was first split off from Sitticus as a separate genus by Prószyński in 2016. , it contains two species.

Taxonomy
Hypositticus is one of a number of genera that were split off from the broadly defined genus Sitticus by Jerzy Prószyński in 2016 and 2017. In 2016, Prószyński used the genus  name Sittipub, derived from the first parts of the generic and specific names of Sitticus pubescens. It was later discovered that Sittipub was pre-empted by Hypositticus, a name first used by Lohmander in 1944.

Species
, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:
Hypositticus pubescens (Fabricius, 1775) (type species) – Europe, North Africa to Turkey, Afghanistan; introduced to USA
Hypositticus relictarius (Logunov, 1998) – Russia, Georgia, Iran, Azerbaijan

References

Category:Salticidae
Category:Salticidae genera
Category:Spiders of Africa
Category:Spiders of Asia