Leptorchestes

Leptorchestes
Leptorchestes sp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Salticinae
Genus:	Leptorchestes Thorell, 1870
Type species
Salticus berolinensis C. L. Koch, 1846
Species
See text.

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

References

• 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.

External links

• Photograph of L. berolinensis
• Photograph of L. mutilloides

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