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Rhetenor

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Rhetenor is a genus of beetle mimicking jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902. it contains only two species, found only in the United States and Brazil: R. diversipes and R. texanus. The name is a reference to Rhetnor, a character in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Species

Redbreast Swallowtail

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassArachnida
  4. OrderAraneae
  5. FamilySalticidae
Observations241
Observations recorded23

via GBIF

Museum specimens

Specimen records
1
Family
Salticidae
Collections
USNM

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Rhetenor is a genus of beetle mimicking jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902. it contains only two species, found only in the United States and Brazil: R. diversipes and R. texanus. The name is a reference to Rhetnor, a character in Ovid's Metamorphoses.

==References==

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