Phidippus whitmani
Appearance
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Scientific classification![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Salticidae |
Subfamily: | Salticinae |
Genus: | Phidippus |
Species: | P. whitmani
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Binomial name | |
Phidippus whitmani Peckham & Peckham,1909
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Phidippus whitmaniis a species ofjumping spider.
Description
[edit]While the male is strikingly red on top, with a black band in the frontal eye region and sometimes with white setae on the forelegs, the female is of a rather inconspicuous brown color. It is one of the species of jumping spiders which aremimicsofmutillid wasps(commonly known as "velvet ants" ); several species of these wasps are similar in size and coloration, and possess a very painful sting.[1]
Distribution
[edit]Phidippus whitmanioccurs in theUnited StatesandCanada.
Name
[edit]The species was named after zoologistCharles Otis Whitman.[1]
References
[edit]- ^Peckham, G. W.; Peckham, E. G. (1909)."Revision of the Attidae of North America".Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters.16(1): 355–655 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related toPhidippus whitmani.
- Photographs ofP. whitmani
- More photographs ofP. whitmanand otherPhidippusspecies
- Diagnostic drawings
- BugGuide:Phidippus whitmani
- Whitman's Jumping Spider photos on Jeff's Nature Pages