Ligonipes

Ligonipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Subkingdom:	Eumetazoa
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Section:	Dionycha
Superfamily:	Salticoidea
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Myrmarachninae
Genus:	Ligonipes Karsch, 1878
Type species
Ligonipes illustris Karsch, 1878
Species
see text
Diversity
6 species

Ligonipes is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). The six described species are found in the Australian region. Their body form mimics ants.

L. semitectus is a very common spider in Queensland, Australia. Males are 4 mm long, females 5 mm.

There has been no information about L. similis (formerly in genus Rhombonotus) since its original description in 1882.

Species

• Ligonipes flavipes Rainbow, 1920 — Norfolk Island
• Ligonipes illustris Karsch, 1878 — Queensland
• Ligonipes lacertosus (Thorell, 1881) — Queensland
• Ligonipes semitectus (Simon, 1900) — Queensland
• Ligonipes similis (Hasselt, 1882) — Sumatra
• Ligonipes synageloides (Szombathy, 1915) — New Guinea

References

• Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
• Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.
• Find-a-Spider: Ligonipes semitectus

Further reading

• Richardson, B.J.; Zabka, M.; Gray, M.R. & Milledge, G. (2006): Distributional patterns of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in Australia. Journal of Biogeography 33(4): 707-719. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01405.x