Opisthoncus

Opisthoncus
Male Opisthoncus mordax
Dorsal view of Opisthoncus polyphemus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Opisthoncus
L. Koch, 1880
Type species
O. polyphemus
(L. Koch, 1867)
Species

32, see text

Opisthoncus is a genus of South Pacific jumping spiders that was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1880. There are still many Australian species that have not yet been described.