Neon (genus)
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{{Taxobox
| name = ''Neon''
| image = Neon.valentulus.4.jpg
| image_caption = ''Neon valentulus''
| image_width = 250px
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Arthropoda]]
| order = [[Spider|Araneae]]
| familia = [[Salticidae]]
| subfamilia = [[Euophryinae]]
| tribus = [[Chalcoscirtini]]
| genus = '''''Neon'''''
| genus_authority = [[Eugène Simon|Simon]], 1876
| diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Neon
| diversity = 24 species
| type_species = ''[[Neon reticulatus|Salticus reticulatus]]''
| type_species_authority = [[John Blackwall|Blackwall]], 1853
| range_map =
| range_map_width = 250px
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
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}}
'''''Neon''''' is a [[spider]] [[genus (biology)|genus]] of the [[Salticidae]] family (jumping spiders). Its 24 described species occur mostly in [[Eurasia]], with some species found in North and South America. One species, ''N. convolutus'', is also found in [[Algeria]].
==Species==
* ''[[Neon avalonus]]'' <small>[[Willis J. Gertsch|Gertsch]] & [[Wilton Ivie|Ivie]], 1955</small> — [[USA]]
* ''[[Neon caboverdensis]]'' <small>Schmidt & Krause, 1998</small> — [[Cape Verde Islands]]
* ''[[Neon convolutus]]'' <small>Denis, 1937</small> — [[France]], [[Azores]], [[Algeria]]
* ''[[Neon ellamae]]'' <small>Gertsch & Ivie, 1955</small> — USA
* ''[[Neon kiyotoi]]'' <small>Ikeda, 1995</small> — [[Japan]]
* ''[[Neon kovblyuki]]'' <small>Logunov, 2004</small> — [[Ukraine]]
* ''[[Neon levis]]'' <small>(Simon, 1871)</small> — [[Palearctic]]
* ''[[Neon minutus]]'' <small>Zabka, 1985</small> — [[Korea]], [[Vietnam]], [[Taiwan]], Japan
* ''[[Neon muticus]]'' <small>(Simon, 1871)</small> — [[Corsica]]
* ''[[Neon nelli]]'' <small>Peckham & Peckham, 1888</small> — USA, [[Canada]]
* ''[[Neon nigriceps]]'' <small>Bryant, 1940</small> — [[Cuba]]
* ''[[Neon ningyo]]'' <small>Ikeda, 1995</small> — [[China]], Japan
* ''[[Neon nojimai]]'' <small>Ikeda, 1995</small> — Japan
* ''[[Neon pictus]]'' <small>Kulczynski, 1891</small> — Southeastern [[Europe]] to [[Central Asia]]
* ''[[Neon pixii]]'' <small>Gertsch & Ivie, 1955</small> — USA
* ''[[Neon plutonus]]'' <small>Gertsch & Ivie, 1955</small> — USA
* ''[[Neon punctulatus]]'' <small>[[Friedrich Karsch|Karsch]], 1880</small> — [[Bolivia]]
* ''[[Neon rayi]]'' <small>(Simon, 1875)</small> — [[Southern Europe|Southern]], [[Central Europe]] to [[Kazakhstan]]
* ''[[Neon reticulatus]]'' <small>(Blackwall, 1853)</small> — [[Holarctic]]
* ''[[Neon robustus]]'' <small>Lohmander, 1945</small> — [[Ireland]], [[Great Britain]], [[Sweden]], [[Finland]], [[Germany]], [[Spain]]
* ''[[Neon sumatranus]]'' <small>Logunov, 1998</small> — [[Malaysia]], [[Indonesia]], [[New Guinea]]
* ''[[Neon valentulus]]'' <small>Falconer, 1912</small> — Europe to Central Asia
* ''[[Neon wangi]]'' <small>Peng & Li, 2006</small> — China
* ''[[Neon zonatus]]'' <small>Bao & Peng, 2002</small> — [[Taiwan]]
==References==
* {{aut|Platnick, Norman I.}} (2008): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog], version 8.5. ''American Museum of Natural History''.
==External sources==
{{commons|Neon (spider)|Neon}}
*[http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/neon/laev-kph.htm Photograph of ''N. levis'']
* [http://www.miiz.waw.pl/salticid/diagnost/neon/nelli-gb.htm Picture of ''N. nellii'']
* {{aut|Bao, Y.-H. & Peng, X.-J.}} (2002). Six New Species of Jumping Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Hui-Sun Experimental Forest Station, Taiwan. ''Zoological Studies'' '''41'''(4): 403-411. [http://zoolstud.sinica.edu.tw/Journals/41.4/403.pdf PDF] - includes ''Neon zonatus''
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