Rhetenor
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| Rhetenor | |
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| Female Rhetenor in Ecuador | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Rhetenor Simon, 1902[1] |
| Type species | |
| R. diversipes Simon, 1902 | |
| Species | |
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Rhetenor is a genus of beetle mimicking jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1902.[2] As of August 2019[update] it contains only two species, found only in the United States and Brazil: R. diversipes and R. texanus.[1] The name is a reference to Rhetnor, a character in Ovid's Metamorphoses.[3]
