Colyttus is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1891. C. lehtinen is named in honor of Finnish arachnologist Pekka T. Lehtinen.
Species it contains eight species, found only in Asia: Colyttus bilineatus Thorell, 1891 (type) – Indonesia (Sumatra, Moluccas) Colyttus kerinci (Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2012) – Indonesia (Sumatra) Colyttus lehtineni Zabka, 1985 – China, Vietnam Colyttus nigriceps (Simon, 1899) – Indonesia (Sumatra) Colyttus proszynskii Caleb, Chatterjee, Tyagi, Kundu & Kumar, 2018 – India Colyttus robustus Zhang & Maddison, 2012 – Malaysia Colyttus striatus (Simon, 1902) – Borneo Colyttus yiwui Lin & Li, 2020 - China
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