Cytaea Keyserling, 1882

Barbara Patoleta & Joanna Gardzińska, 2010, Description of a new species of Cytaea Keyserling 1882 from Fiji (Araneae: Salticidae), Genus 21, pp. 631-635 : 632

Genus Cytaea Keyserling, 1882

Cytaea Keyserling 1882 , p. 1380; simon 1903, pp. 810-817; Żabka 1991, p. 24; Berry et al 1998, pp. 150- 151; murPHy & murPHy 2000, p. 349.

According to Berry et al. (1998) genus Cytaea is characterized by two-cusp tooth on retromargin of chelicerae and 3 to 6 teeth on promargin, lateral spines on all tibiae, patellae and metatarsi, and dorsal spine near base on tibiae. Cytaea can be distinguish from similar genera in the entire Pacific (like Ascyltus , Euryattus and Servaea ), by very short tibia and patella of the males palp, as wide as long or wider (Berry et al. 1998).