Belippo Explained

Belippo is a genus of ant-mimicking African jumping spiders.^[1] The genus was first described by Eugène Louis Simon (30 April 1848- 17 November 1924) in 1910.^[2]

Species

it contains twelve species, found only in Africa:^[3]

• Belippo anguina Simon, 1910 (type) – São Tomé and Príncipe
• Belippo attenuata Wesolowska & Haddad, 2014 – Lesotho
• Belippo calcarata (Roewer, 1942) – Angola, Congo, Equatorial Guinea (Bioko), Kenya, South Africa
• Belippo cygniformis Wanless, 1978 – Ghana
• Belippo eburnensis Wesolowska & Wiśniewski, 2020 – Ivory Coast
• Belippo elgonensis Wesolowska & Wiśniewski, 2015 – Kenya
• Belippo ibadan Wanless, 1978 – Nigeria
• Belippo meridionalis Wesolowska & Haddad, 2013 – South Africa
• Belippo milloti (Lessert, 1942) – Nigeria, Congo, Kenya
• Belippo nexilis (Simon, 1910) – São Tomé and Príncipe
• Belippo pulchra Haddad & Wesolowska, 2013 – South Africa
• Belippo terribilis Wesolowska & Wiśniewski, 2015 – Kenya
• Belippo viettei (Kraus, 1960) – São Tomé and Príncipe

Notes and References

1. Wesołowska. W.. Wiśniewski. K.. New data on Belippo and Myrmarachne of Kenya (Araneae: Salticidae: Myrmarachninae). Zootaxa. July 2015. 3980. 4. 547–61. 10.11646/zootaxa.3980.4.5. 26249971.
2. Simon. E.. 1910. Arachnides recueillis par L. Fea sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique. 2e partie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 335–449. 44. Eugène Simon.
3. Gen. Belippo Simon, 1910. World Spider Catalog Version 21.0. 2020-04-24. 2020. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.