Clynotis saxatilis is a species of jumping spider that is endemic to New Zealand.
Taxonomy This species was described as Attus saxatilis by Arthur Urquhart in 1886 from a female specimen.Urquhart, A. T. (1886). On the spiders of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 18: 184-205. It was most recently revised in 1935.Bryant, E. B. (1935). Some new and little known species of New Zealand spiders. Records of the Canterbury Museum 4: 71-94, pl. 10-13.
Description The female is recorded at 8.6mm in length. The cephalothorax is coloured dark brown. The abdomen is brownish grey.
Distribution This species is only known from Canterbury and Lake Tekapo, New Zealand.
Conservation status Under the New Zealand Threat Classification System, this species is listed as "Data Deficient" with the qualifiers of "Data Poor: Size" and "Data Poor: Trend".
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