Leptorchestes
| Leptorchestes | |
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| Leptorchestes sp. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Thorell, 1870 |
| Type species | |
| Salticus berolinensis C. L. Koch, 1846
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| Species | |
Leptorchestes is a genus of jumping spiders in the family Salticidae. As in several other genera of salticids, it mimicks ants.
Species
- Leptorchestes algerinus Wesołowska & Szeremeta, 2001 – Algeria
- Leptorchestes berolinensis (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Europe to Turkmenistan
- Leptorchestes mutilloides (Lucas, 1846) – Southern Europe, Algeria
- Leptorchestes peresi (Simon, 1868) – Mediterranean
- Leptorchestes separatus Wesołowska & Szeremeta, 2001 – Namibia
- Leptorchestes sikorskii Prószyński, 2000 – Lebanon, Israel, Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece[1]
References
- ^ Naumova, Maria; Blagoev, Gergin; Deltshev, Christo (June 2021). "Fifty spider species new to the Bulgarian fauna, with a review of some dubious species (Arachnida: Araneae)". Zootaxa. 4984 (1): 228–257. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4984.1.18. PMID 34186684. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
- Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.
Further reading
- Wesołowska, Wanda & Szeremeta, M (2001): A revision of the ant like salticid genera Enoplomischus Giltay, 1931, Kima Peckham & Peckham, 1902 and Leptorchestes Thorell, 1870 (Araneae, Salticidae). Insect Systematic & Evolution 32(2): 217-240.