''Vinnius'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of South American
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 ...
that was first described by
Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.
The genera ''
Frespera'' and ''
Arnoliseus'' were split from this genus in 2002.
Species
it contains four species, found in Brazil, with one species also found in Argentina:
*''
Vinnius buzius''
Braul & Lise, 2002 –
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
*''
Vinnius camacan''
Braul & Lise, 2002 – Brazil
*''
Vinnius subfasciatus''
(C. L. Koch, 1846) (
type) – Brazil
*''
Vinnius uncatus''
Simon, 1902 – Brazil,
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
References
Salticidae
Salticidae genera
Spiders of South America
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