Pseudemathis trifida (male).jpg, Pseudemathis trifida (male)
Pseudemathis trifida (femelle).jpg, Pseudemathis trifida (female)
''Pseudemathis'' is a monotypicgenus of African
jumping spiders
Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. As of 2019, this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders at 13% of all species. Jumping spi ...
containing the single species, ''Pseudemathis trifida''. It was first described by
Eugène Louis Simon
Eugene is a common male given name that comes from the Greek εὐγενής (''eugenēs''), "noble", literally "well-born", from εὖ (''eu''), "well" and γένος (''genos''), "race, stock, kin".Ancient Greek " pseudo-" (), meaning "false", and the salticid genus name '' Emathis''.