| Rhetenor | |
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| Female Rhetenor in Ecuador | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Rhetenor Simon, 1902 |
| 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. As of August 2019 it contains only two species, found only in the United States and Brazil: R. diversipes and R. texanus. The name is a reference to Rhetnor, a character in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
References
- ^ "Gen. Rhetenor Simon, 1902". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-12.
- Simon, E. (1902). "Description d'arachnides nouveaux de la famille des Salticidae (Attidae) (suite)". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 46: 363–406.
- Ubick, D.; Paquin, P.; Cushing, P. E.; Roth, V. (2005). Spiders of North America: an identification manual. American Arachnological Society.
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