Myrmecium (spider)
| Myrmecium | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Corinnidae |
| Genus: | Myrmecium Latreille, 1824 |
| Species | |
|
See text. | |
| Diversity | |
| 16 species | |
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)
External links
- Clubionid ant-mimic from Trinidad and Tobago (Myrmecium sp. according to American Arachnology Online)