Phidippus whitmani is a species of jumping spider.
Phidippus whitmani | |
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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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Description
editWhile 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 are mimics of mutillid 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
editPhidippus whitmani occurs in the United States and Canada.
Name
editThe species was named after zoologist Charles 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
editWikimedia Commons has media related to Phidippus whitmani.
- Photographs of P. whitmani
- More photographs of P. whitman and other Phidippus species
- Diagnostic drawings
- BugGuide: Phidippus whitmani
- Whitman's Jumping Spider photos on Jeff's Nature Pages