| Phidippus whitmani | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Phidippus |
| Species: | P. whitmani |
| Binomial name | |
| Phidippus whitmani Peckham & Peckham, 1909 | |
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Phidippus whitmani is a species of jumping spider.
While the male is strikingly red on top, with a black band in the frontal eye region and sometimes with white setae on the forelegs, the female is of a rather inconspicuous brown color. It is one of the species of jumping spiders which are mimics of mutillid wasps (commonly known as "velvet ants"); several species of these wasps are similar in size and coloration, and possess a very painful sting.
Phidippus whitmani occurs in the United States and Canada.
The species was named after zoologist Charles Otis Whitman. [1]
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