Emathis is a genus

Genus

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 of the spider

Spider

Spiders are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms...

 family Salticidae (jumping spider

Jumping spider

The jumping spider family contains more than 500 described genera and about 5,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders with about 13% of all species. Jumping spiders have some of the best vision among invertebrates and use it in courtship, hunting and navigation...

s) with ten described species. Half of the species occurs from Sumatra to the Philippines, the other five occur in the West Indies. It is not certain that these two groups should reside within the same genus. This genus is very similar to the closely related Lepidemathis

Lepidemathis

Lepidemathis is a spider genus of the Salticidae family . The two described species are endemic to the Philippines.Species of Lepidemathis look like large editions of the related genus Emathis, where the two species were originally described.Lepidemathis is about 10 mm long in females, and up...

, which are larger.

Species

• Emathis astorgasensis Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines
  Philippines
  The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
  
  
• Emathis coprea (Thorell, 1890) — Sumatra
  Sumatra
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• Emathis luteopunctata Petrunkevitch, 1930 — Puerto Rico
  Puerto Rico
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• Emathis makilingensis Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 — Philippines
• Emathis minuta Petrunkevitch, 1930 — Puerto Rico
• Emathis portoricensis Petrunkevitch, 1930 — Puerto Rico
• Emathis scabra (Thorell, 1890) — Sumatra
• Emathis tetuani Petrunkevitch, 1930 — Puerto Rico
• Emathis unispina Franganillo, 1930 — Cuba
  Cuba
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• Emathis weyersi
  Emathis weyersi
  Emathis weyersi is a species of jumping spider that occurs from Sumatra to the Philippines.-Description:The orange carapace of the female is fairly high with a flat head part. The whitish-yellow abdomen is oval and longish, with grey sides and some grey spots in the middle, the whitish-yellow legs...
  
  Simon, 1899 — Sumatra to Philippines