Emertonius is a genus of spiders in the jumping spider family Salticidae.[1]
Emertonius was first described by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1892.[1] It was variously treated as a synonym of Myrmarachne or a separate genus from 1978 onwards. Jerzy Prószyński revalidated the genus in 2018,[2] and it is accepted by the World Spider Catalog as of August 2020.[1]
When included in Myrmarachne, it was placed in subfamily Salticinae (clade Salticoida, tribe Myrmarachnini) in Maddison's 2016 classification of the family Salticidae.[3] Prószyński placed the separate genus in his informal group "myrmarachnines".[2]
As of August 2020, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following extant species:[1]
Emertonius is a genus of spiders in the jumping spider family Salticidae.
