''Jotus auripes'' is a species of jumping spider of the

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Jotus ''Jotus'' is a spider genus of the family Salticidae (jumping spiders), native to Australia, New Zealand, and Indonesia. There are thought to be many as yet undescribed species in southern Australia. Species , the World Spider Catalog accepted t ...

. ''J. auripes'' was first described by the German arachnologist

Ludwig Carl Christian Koch Ludwig Carl Christian Koch (8 November 1825 – 1 November 1908) was a German entomologist and arachnologist. He was born in Regensburg, Germany, and died in Nuremberg, Germany. He studied in Nuremberg, initially law, but then turned to medic ...

in 1881.

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Salticidae Spiders described in 1881 {{salticidae-stub