Leptorchestes Explained

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^[1]

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 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

Notes and References

1. Naumova . Maria . Blagoev . Gergin . Deltshev . Christo . June 2021 . Fifty spider species new to the Bulgarian fauna, with a review of some dubious species (Arachnida: Araneae) . Zootaxa . 4984. 1 . 228–257 . 6 June 2024.