Simonurius is a genus of South American jumping spiders that was first described by María Elena Galiano in 1988.[2] The name is a reference to arachnologist Eugène Simon.

Simonurius
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Simonurius
Galiano, 1988[1]
Type species
S. gladifer
(Simon, 1901)
Species

4, see text

Species

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As of April 2022 it contains four species, found in South America:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2022). "Gen. Simonurius Galiano, 1988". World Spider Catalog Version 23.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
  2. ^ Galiano, M. E. (1988). "Revision de los géneros del grupo Hurieae (Araneae, Salticidae)". Journal of Arachnology. 15: 285–301.