Leptorchestes

Leptorchestes is a genus of jumping spiders in the family Salticidae. As in several other genera of salticids, it mimicks ants.

Species

• Leptorchestes algerinus <small>Wesołowska & Szeremeta, 2001</small> – Algeria
• Leptorchestes berolinensis <small>(C. L. Koch, 1846)</small> – Europe to Turkmenistan
• Leptorchestes mutilloides <small>(Lucas, 1846)</small> – Southern Europe, Algeria
• Leptorchestes peresi <small>(Simon, 1868)</small> – Mediterranean
• Leptorchestes separatus <small>Wesołowska & Szeremeta, 2001</small> – Namibia
• Leptorchestes sikorskii <small>Prószyński, 2000</small> – Lebanon, Israel, Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece

References

• (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.

Further reading

• (2001): A revision of the ant like salticid genera Enoplomischus <small>Giltay, 1931</small>, Kima <small>Peckham & Peckham, 1902</small> and Leptorchestes <small>Thorell, 1870</small> (Araneae, Salticidae). Insect Systematic & Evolution 32(2): 217-240.

External links

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