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Family: OXYOPIDAE Thorell, 1870

lynx spiders

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SALTICIDAE

Family Name Authority

Thorell, T. 1869. On European spiders. Part I. Review of the European genera of spiders, preceded by some observations on zoological nomenclature. Nova Acta reg. Soc. sci. Upsaliae (3) 7: 1-108.

Nearctic Taxonomic/Species Richness

Number of Nearctic Species: 18 (as documented in the World Spider Catalog & includes introductions)

Nearctic/Palearctic Genera

#	Genus	Ref.	Common Name
1	Hamataliwa Keyserling, 1887
2	Oxyopes Latreille, 1804
3	Peucetia Thorell, 1869

Nearctic/Palearctic Species Images

Hamataliwa grisea Keyserling, 1887 Hamataliwa helia (Chamberlin, 1929) Oxyopes acleistus Chamberlin, 1929 Oxyopes apollo Brady, 1964 Oxyopes salticus Hentz, 1845 Oxyopes scalaris Hentz, 1845 Peucetia longipalpis F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1902 Peucetia viridans (Hentz, 1832)

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