Leptorchestes is a genus of jumping spiders in the family Salticidae. As in several other genera of salticids, it mimicks ants.
Species Leptorchestes algerinus Wesołowska & Szeremeta, 2001 – Algeria Leptorchestes berolinensis (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Europe to Turkmenistan Leptorchestes mutilloides (Lucas, 1846) – Southern Europe, Algeria Leptorchestes peresi (Simon, 1868) – Mediterranean Leptorchestes separatus Wesołowska & Szeremeta, 2001 – Namibia Leptorchestes sikorskii Prószyński, 2000 – Lebanon, Israel, Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece
References
(2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.
Further reading (2001): A revision of the ant like salticid genera Enoplomischus Giltay, 1931, Kima Peckham & Peckham, 1902 and Leptorchestes Thorell, 1870 (Araneae, Salticidae). Insect Systematic & Evolution 32(2): 217-240.
External links Photograph of L. berolinensis Photograph of L. mutilloides