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Myrmecium (spider)

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Myrmecium
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Corinnidae
Genus: Myrmecium
Latreille, 1824[1]
Type species
M. rufum
Latreille, 1824
Species

39, see text

Myrmecium is a genus of ant-mimicking corinnid sac spiders first described by Pierre André Latreille in 1824.[2] The unrelated jumping spider species Synemosyna formica has been mistaken for a member of this genus twice, once by Eugène Simon in 1897 (Myrmecium lunatum)[3] and once by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1932 (Myrmecium rubrum).[4]

Species

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As of April 2019 it contains thirty-nine species in South America and the Caribbean:[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Myrmecium Latreille, 1824". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-21.
  2. ^ Latreille, P. A. (1824). "Notice sur un nouveau genre d'Aranéides". Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Paris. 3: 23–27.
  3. ^ Simon, E (1897). Histoire naturelle des araignées. p. 170. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
  4. ^ Mello-Leitão, C. F. de (1932). "Notas sobre o genero Myrmecium". Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 4: 150.
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