Euryattus is a genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 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...

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Like Holcolaetis

Holcolaetis

Holcolaetis is a genus of the spider family Salticidae .Like Euryattus and Thiania bhamoensis, these spiders build a flat, densely woven egg sac that is not contiguous with the silk of the nest...

and Thiania bhamoensis

Thiania bhamoensis

Thiania bhamoensis is a species of jumping spider.-Description:The species is iridescent green-blue. Females are more green, males more blue.From the front view, the female's face are black...

, these spiders build a flat, densely woven egg sac that is not contiguous with the silk of the nest. Euryattus posits the egg sac in rolled up leaves, similar to T. bhamoensis, which is in the same subfamily and stitches two leaves together.

Name

The genus name is a compound of Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the stage of the Greek language in the periods spanning the times c. 9th–6th centuries BC, , c. 5th–4th centuries BC , and the c. 3rd century BC – 6th century AD of ancient Greece and the ancient world; being predated in the 2nd millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek...

 eury "wide" and the common salticid ending -attus.

Species

• Euryattus bleekeri (Doleschall, 1859) (Sri Lanka to Queensland)
• Euryattus breviusculus (Simon, 1902) (Sri Lanka)
• Euryattus celebensis (Merian, 1911) (Sulawesi)
• Euryattus leopoldi (Roewer, 1938) (New Guinea, Aru Is.)
• Euryattus myiopotami (Thorell, 1881) (New Guinea)
• Euryattus porcellus Thorell, 1881 (New Guinea)
• Euryattus venustus (Doleschall, 1859) (Amboina, New Guinea)
• Euryattus wallacei (Thorell, 1881) (Queensland)

External links

• Photograph of E. bleekeri (?)