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Rhetenor

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Rhetenor
Female Rhetenor in Ecuador
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Rhetenor
Simon, 1902[1]
Type species
R. diversipes
Simon, 1902
Species

Rhetenor is a genus of beetle mimicking jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.[2] As of August 2019 it contains only two species, found only in the United States and Brazil: R. diversipes and R. texanus.[1] The name is a reference to Rhetnor, a character in Ovid's Metamorphoses.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Rhetenor Simon, 1902". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-12.
  2. ^ Simon, E. (1902). "Description d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Salticidae (Attidae) (suite)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 46: 363–406.
  3. ^ Ubick, D.; Paquin, P.; Cushing, P. E.; Roth, V. (2005). Spiders of North America: an identification manual. American Arachnological Society.
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