Toxeus is a genus of jumping spiders first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1846.Koch, C. L. (1846). Die Arachniden. J. L. Lotzbeck, Nürnberg, Dreizehnter Band, pp. 1-234, Vierzehnter Band, pp. 1-88 The genus was synonymized with Myrmarachne by Eugène Simon in 1901, and remained a synonym until revived by Jerzy Prószyński in 2016, when he split up Myrmarachne.
Prószyński placed Toxeus in his informal group "myrmarachnines". When synonymized with Myrmarachne, it was placed in the tribe Myrmarachnini, part of the Salticoida clade of the subfamily Salticinae in Maddison's 2015 classification of the family Salticidae.
Species
, it includes the following species: Toxeus alboclavus Jose & Sudhikumar, 2022 – India Toxeus bicuspidatus (Yamasaki, 2012) – Sulawesi Toxeus cuneatus (Badcock, 1918) – Malaysia Toxeus globosus (Wanless, 1978) – Angola to China Toxeus grossus (Edmunds & Prószyński, 2003) – Malaysia Toxeus hainan Wang & Li, 2022 – Hainan Toxeus hirsutipalpi (Edmunds & Prószyński, 2003) – Malaysia, Singapore, Bali Toxeus jajpurensis (Prószyński, 1992) – India Toxeus latithoracicus (Yamasaki & Hung, 2012) – Ryukyu Islands Toxeus magnus (Saito, 1933) – Taiwan Toxeus maxillosus C. L. Koch, 1846 – Southeast Asia to Philippines, Sulawesi, Lombok Toxeus septemdentatus (Strand, 1907) – China Toxeus yamasakii Logunov, 2021 – Vietnam
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