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Belippo
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Belippo is a genus of ant-mimicking African jumping spiders. The genus was first described by Eugène Simon (1848-1924) in 1910.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilySalticidae

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
2
Family
Salticidae
Collections
ARC-PPRI
Recorded in
South Africa

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  • Life style
  • Description
  • Taxonomy
  • Species
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Belippo is a genus of ant-mimicking African jumping spiders. The genus was first described by Eugène Simon (1848-1924) in 1910.

==Life style== These are ground-dwelling spiders, usually collected from leaf litter. They generally mimic Crematogaster ants.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Belippo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.