Rhetenor
| Rhetenor | |
|---|---|
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| Rhetenor texanus male holotype | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Dendryphantinae |
| Genus: | Rhetenor Simon, 1902 |
| Type species | |
| Rhetenor diversipes Simon, 1902 | |
| Species | |
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see text | |
| Diversity | |
| 2 species | |
Rhetenor is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). Spiders in this genus are beetle mimics.
The name of the genus is a literary reference. In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Rhetenor was a companion of Diomedes.[1]
Species
References
- ↑ D. Ubick, P. Paquin, P. E. Cushing, and V. Roth (eds.) (2005). Spiders of North America: an identification manual. American Arachnological Society. p. 317.
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