Myrmecium (spider)

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Kingdom Animalia Class Arachnida Family Corinnidae Rank Genus		Subphylum Chelicerata Infraorder Araneomorphae Phylum Arthropoda Order Spider

Similar Synemosyna, Sarinda, Amyciaea, Aphantochilus, Castianeira

Myrmecium is a genus of ant-mimicking spiders. The 16 known species occur only in South America.

Eugène Simon described the totally unrelated jumping spider species Synemosyna formica as Myrmecium lunatum in 1897; Mello-Leitao described the same species as Myrmecium rubrum in 1932.

Species

Myrmecium aurantiacum Mello-Leitão, 1941 (Brazil)

Myrmecium bifasciatum Taczanowski, 1874 (Brazil, French Guiana)

Myrmecium bonaerense Holmberg, 1881 (Argentina)

Myrmecium camponotoides Mello-Leitão, 1932 (Brazil)

Myrmecium dacetoniforme Mello-Leitão, 1932 (Brazil)

Myrmecium fuscum Dahl, 1907 (Bolivia)

Myrmecium gounellei Simon, 1896 (Brazil)

Myrmecium itatiaiae Mello-Leitão, 1932 (Brazil)

Myrmecium latreillei (Lucas, 1856) (Brazil)

Myrmecium monacanthum Simon, 1897 (Venezuela)

Myrmecium obscurum Keyserling, 1891 (Brazil)

Myrmecium reticulatum Dahl, 1907 (Peru)

Myrmecium rufum Latreille, 1824 (Brazil)

Myrmecium trifasciatum Caporiacco, 1947 (Guyana)

Myrmecium vertebratum (Walckenaer, 1837) (Brazil)

Myrmecium viehmeyeri Dahl, 1907 (Peru)

References

Myrmecium (spider) Wikipedia

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