Stergusa

Stergusa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Stergusa Simon, 1889[1]
Type species
S. improbula Simon, 1889
Species
5, see text

Stergusa is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1889.[2]

Species

As of August 2019^[update] it contains five species, found only in Asia and on New Caledonia:[1]

• Stergusa aurata Simon, 1902 – Sri Lanka
• Stergusa aurichalcea Simon, 1902 – Sri Lanka
• Stergusa improbula Simon, 1889 (type) – New Caledonia
• Stergusa incerta Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2010 – Indonesia (Sumbawa)
• Stergusa stelligera Simon, 1902 – Sri Lanka

References

1. "Gen. Stergusa Simon, 1889". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
2. Simon, E. (1889). "Etudes arachnologiques. 21e Mémoire. XXXII. Descriptions d'espèces et the genres nouveaux de Nouvelle Calédonie". Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 8 (6): 237–247.