BELIPPO

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^[update] 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

^ ^a ^b "Gen. Belippo Simon, 1910". World Spider Catalog Version 21.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2020. doi: 10.24436/2. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
^ 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.
^ 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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