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{{Short description| Genus of spiders}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| taxon = Paraphidippus
| image = Paraphidippus_aurantius_1.jpg
| image_caption = ''Paraphidippus aurantius''
| authority = [[Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge|F. O. Pickard-Cambridge]], 1901<ref name=NMBE />
| type_species = ''[[Paraphidippus laniipes|P. laniipes]]''
| type_species_authority = F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 14, [[#Species|see text]]
}}
'''''Paraphidippus''''' is a [[genus]] of [[Salticidae|jumping spiders]] that was first described by [[Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge]] in 1901.<ref name=Pick1901>{{citation| last=Pickard-Cambridge| first=F. O.| year=1901| contribution=Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones| title=Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology| author-link=Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge}}</ref> The name is a combination of the [[Ancient Greek]] "[[wikt:παρά|para]]" ({{lang|grc|παρά}}), meaning "alongside", and the salticid genus ''[[Phidippus]]''.

==Species==
{{as of|2019|08}} it contains fourteen species, found in Central America, [[Mexico]], the [[United States]], and on the [[Greater Antilles]]:<ref name=NMBE>{{cite journal| title=Gen. Paraphidippus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901| website=World Spider Catalog Version 20.0| access-date=2019-09-08| year=2019| publisher=Natural History Museum Bern| url=http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/genus/2858| doi=10.24436/2}}</ref>
*''[[Paraphidippus aurantius]]'' <small>(Lucas, 1833)</small> – USA to Panama, [[Greater Antilles]]
*''[[Paraphidippus basalis]]'' <small>([[Nathan Banks|Banks]], 1904)</small> – USA
*''[[Paraphidippus disjunctus]]'' <small>(Banks, 1898)</small> – Mexico to Costa Rica
*''[[Paraphidippus fartilis]]'' <small>(Peckham & Peckham, 1888)</small> – USA to Costa Rica
*''[[Paraphidippus fulgidus]]'' <small>([[Carl Ludwig Koch|C. L. Koch]], 1846)</small> – [[Mexico]]
*''[[Paraphidippus funebris]]'' <small>(Banks, 1898)</small> – Mexico to Costa Rica
*''[[Paraphidippus fuscipes]]'' <small>(C. L. Koch, 1846)</small> – Mexico
*''[[Paraphidippus incontestus]]'' <small>(Banks, 1909)</small> – [[Costa Rica]]
*''[[Paraphidippus inermis]]'' <small>F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901</small> – Mexico to Costa Rica
*''[[Paraphidippus laniipes]]'' <small>F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901</small> ([[Type_species|type]]) – Mexico
*''[[Paraphidippus luteus]]'' <small>(Peckham & Peckham, 1896)</small> – [[Honduras]], Costa Rica
*''[[Paraphidippus mexicanus]]'' <small>(Peckham & Peckham, 1888)</small> – Mexico
*''[[Paraphidippus nigropilosus]]'' <small>(Banks, 1898)</small> – Mexico
*''[[Paraphidippus nitens]]'' <small>(C. L. Koch, 1846)</small> – Mexico

==References==
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[[Category:Salticidae genera]]
[[Category:Salticidae]]
[[Category:Spiders of North America]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge]]


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