Paraphidippus Explained

Paraphidippus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1901. The name is a combination of the Ancient Greek "para" (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: παρά), meaning "alongside", and the salticid genus Phidippus.

Species

it contains fourteen species, found in Central America, Mexico, the United States, and on the Greater Antilles:^[1]

• Paraphidippus aurantius (Lucas, 1833) – USA to Panama, Greater Antilles
• Paraphidippus basalis (Banks, 1904) – USA
• Paraphidippus disjunctus (Banks, 1898) – Mexico to Costa Rica
• Paraphidippus fartilis (Peckham & Peckham, 1888) – USA to Costa Rica
• Paraphidippus fulgidus (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Mexico
• Paraphidippus funebris (Banks, 1898) – Mexico to Costa Rica
• Paraphidippus fuscipes (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Mexico
• Paraphidippus incontestus (Banks, 1909) – Costa Rica
• Paraphidippus inermis F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 – Mexico to Costa Rica
• Paraphidippus laniipes F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 (type) – Mexico
• Paraphidippus luteus (Peckham & Peckham, 1896) – Honduras, Costa Rica
• Paraphidippus mexicanus (Peckham & Peckham, 1888) – Mexico
• Paraphidippus nigropilosus (Banks, 1898) – Mexico
• Paraphidippus nitens (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Mexico

Notes and References

1. Gen. Paraphidippus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-09-08. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.