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Species Chalcoscirtus diminutus

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynae)
Family Salticidae (Jumping Spiders)
Genus Chalcoscirtus
Species diminutus (Chalcoscirtus diminutus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Explanation of Names
First described in 1896 by Nathan Banks as Icius diminutus.

diminutus is Latin for "small, diminutive"
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Print References
A review of the Nearctic jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the subfamily Euophryinae north of Mexico, by G.B. Edwards (1)
Works Cited
1.A review of the Nearctic jumping spiders [Araneae: Salticidae] of the subfamily Euophryinae north of Mexico
G.B. Edwards. 2002. Insecta Mundi, v. 16, n. 1-3, p. 65-75.