Metaphidippus
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| Metaphidippus | |
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| Male Metaphidippus manni | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Metaphidippus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901[1] |
| Type species | |
| M. mandibulatus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 | |
| Species | |
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46, see text | |
Metaphidippus is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1901.[2] The name is combined from Ancient Greek μετά "after, beside" and the salticid genus Phidippus.
