Belippo

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Belippo

| authority = Simon, 1910

| type_species = B. anguina

| type_species_authority = Simon, 1910

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 12, see text

}}

Belippo is a genus of ant-mimicking African jumping spiders.{{cite journal|last1=Wesołowska|first1=W.|last2=Wiśniewski|first2=K.|title=New data on Belippo and Myrmarachne of Kenya (Araneae: Salticidae: Myrmarachninae)|journal=Zootaxa|date=July 2015|volume=3980|number=4|pages=547–61|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3980.4.5|pmid=26249971}} The genus was first described by Eugène Louis Simon (30 April 1848- 17 November 1924) in 1910.{{cite journal| last=Simon| first=E.| year=1910| title=Arachnides recueillis par L. Fea sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique. 2e partie| journal=Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova| pages=335–449| volume=44| author-link=Eugène Simon}}

Species

{{as of|2020|04}} it contains twelve species, found only in Africa:{{cite journal| title=Gen. Belippo Simon, 1910| website=World Spider Catalog Version 21.0| access-date=2020-04-24| year=2020| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2539| doi=10.24436/2}}

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

References

Category:Salticidae genera

Category:Salticidae

Category:Spiders of Africa