Dendryphantinae

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female Phidippus johnsoni
female Phidippus johnsoni
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Dendryphantinae
Genera

See text.

The Dendryphantinae are a subfamily of jumping spiders that occur mainly in the New World. The females generally show paired spots on the abdomen, and the males often have enlarged chelicerae.[1]

[edit] Genera

This list is slightly modified from Maddison (1988)[2] and thus possibly outdated and/or incomplete.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Tree of Life Web: Dendryphantinae
  2. ^ Maddison, W.P. (1988). A revision of jumping spider species groups formerly placed in the genus Metaphidippus, with a discussion of salticid phylogeny (Araneae). Ph.D. thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge.

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