Leptorchestes
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| Leptorchestes | |
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| Leptorchestes sp. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Leptorchestes Thorell, 1870 |
| Type species | |
| Salticus berolinensis C. L. Koch, 1846 | |
| Species | |
Leptorchestes is a genus of jumping spiders in the family Salticidae. As in several other genera of salticids, it mimicks ants.
- Leptorchestes algerinus Wesołowska & Szeremeta, 2001 – Algeria
- Leptorchestes berolinensis (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Europe to Turkmenistan
- Leptorchestes mutilloides (Lucas, 1846) – Southern Europe, Algeria
- Leptorchestes peresi (Simon, 1868) – Mediterranean
- Leptorchestes separatus Wesołowska & Szeremeta, 2001 – Namibia
- Leptorchestes sikorskii Prószyński, 2000 – Lebanon, Israel, Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece[1]
