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jumping spiders Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. As of 2019, this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders at 13% of all species. Jumping spi ...

that was first described by

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& Elizabeth Peckham in 1892. , it contains only three species, which are found only in the

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and

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: '' B. angusticollis'', '' B. excelsus'', and '' B. philippinensis''. They are indistinguishable from the related genus ''

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'' without the help of a

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References

External links

* Salticidae.org
Diagnostic drawings and photographs with mimicked ant species
Salticidae genera Salticidae Spiders of Asia {{Jumping-spider-stub