Saitis is a 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...

 genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). The 30 recognized species are spread worldwide.

Distribution

It is possible that the species from Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 belong to other genera, such as Lycidas.

Species

Only fourteen species have diagnostic drawings of any sort, and it is likely that at least some species should be transferred to other genera (Hall 2009).

• Saitis annae
  Saitis annae
  Saitis annae is a species of jumping spider in the Salticidae family. It found in the West Indies and Jamaica....
  
  Cockerell, 1894 — Jamaica
• Saitis aranukanus Roewer, 1944 — Gilbert Islands
• Saitis ariadneae Logunov, 2001 — Crete
• Saitis auberti Berland, 1938 — New Hebrides
• Saitis barbipes
  Saitis barbipes
  Saitis barbipes is a common jumping spider in the Mediterranean region, where it can be found on houses and rocks, as well as indoors.The Australian "peacock spider", Maratus volans, has a range of superficial similarities to the species, such as green eyes, and an enlarged third pair of legs used...
  
  (Simon, 1868) — Mediterranean, Central Europe (introduced?)
• Saitis berlandi Roewer, 1951 — New Hebrides
• Saitis breviusculus Simon, 1901 — Gabon
• Saitis catulus Simon, 1901 — Venezuela
• Saitis chaperi Simon, 1885 — India, Sri Lanka
• Saitis cupidon (Simon, 1885) — New Caledonia
• Saitis cyanipes Simon, 1901 — Brazil
• Saitis graecus Kulczynski, 1905 — Greece
• Saitis imitatus (Simon, 1868) — Croatia, Montenegro
• Saitis insectus (Hogg, 1896) — Central Australia
• Saitis insulanus Rainbow
  William Joseph Rainbow
  William Joseph Rainbow was an entomologist and arachnologist whose work includes the first catalogue of Australian spiders.-Life:...
  
  , 1920 — Lord Howe Islands
• Saitis lacustris Hickman, 1944 — Central Australia
• Saitis latifrons Caporiacco
  Ludovico di Caporiacco
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  , 1928 — Libya
• Saitis leighi Peckham & Peckham, 1903 — South Africa
• Saitis magniceps (Keyserling, 1882) — Queensland
• Saitis magnus Caporiacco, 1947 — Ethiopia
• Saitis marcusi Soares & Camargo, 1948 — Brazil
• Saitis mundus Peckham & Peckham, 1903 — East, Southern Africa
• Saitis nanus Soares & Camargo, 1948 — Brazil
• Saitis perplexides (Strand, 1908) — Jamaica
• Saitis relucens (Thorell, 1877) — Sulawesi
• Saitis sengleti (Metzner, 1999) — Greece, Crete
• Saitis signatus (Keyserling, 1883) — Australia
• Saitis speciosus (O. P.-Cambridge, 1874) — New South Wales
• Saitis spinosus (Mello-Leitão, 1945) — Argentina
• Saitis splendidus (Walckenaer, 1837) — Timor
• Saitis taeniatus Keyserling, 1883 — Australia
• Saitis tauricus Kulczynski, 1905 — Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Ukraine
• Saitis variegatus Mello-Leitão, 1941 — Argentina

External links

• Photograph of S. barbipes