Belippo
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Belippo
Simon, 1910[1]
Type species
B. anguina
Simon, 1910
Species

12, see text

Belippo is a genus of ant-mimicking African jumping spiders.[2] The genus was first described by Eugène Louis Simon (30 April 1848- 17 November 1924) in 1910.[3]

Species

As of April 2020 it contains twelve species, found only in Africa:[1]

  • 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

References

  1. 1 2 "Gen. Belippo Simon, 1910". World Spider Catalog Version 21.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
  2. Wesołowska, W.; Wiśniewski, K. (July 2015). "New data on Belippo and Myrmarachne of Kenya (Araneae: Salticidae: Myrmarachninae)". Zootaxa. 3980 (4): 547–61. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3980.4.5. PMID 26249971.
  3. 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. 44: 335–449.


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