Bucranium taurifrons
| Bucranium taurifrons | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Thomisidae |
| Genus: | Bucranium |
| Species: | B. taurifrons
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| Binomial name | |
| Bucranium taurifrons (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881)[1]
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Bucranium taurifrons is a species of ant-mimicking crab spiders from South America. It is found in Venezuela, Guyana, Peru, Brazil and Paraguay.[1]
Like the crab spider Aphantochilus, it mimic ants of the genus Cephalotes (probably C. atratus), which are their preferred prey. It also carries dead ants.[citation needed]
Name
Tauros means "bull" in Greek, frons is Latin for "front".[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b "Taxon details Bucranium taurifrons (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881)", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2016-02-25