title: Phidippus whitmani
text: # Phidippus whitmani
  
  Phidippus whitmani is a species of jumping spider.
  
  ## Description
  
  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.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  Phidippus whitmani occurs in the United States and Canada.
  
  ## Name
  
  The species was named after zoologist Charles Otis Whitman.
  
  