Agorius

Taxobox
name = "Agorius"


image_width = 250px
image_caption = "Agorius constrictus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
familia = Salticidae
subfamilia = Agoriinae
tribus = Agoriini
genus = "Agorius"
genus_authority = Thorell, 1877
type_species = "Agorius gracilipes"
type_species_authority = Thorell, 1877
diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Agorius
diversity = 7 species
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = see text

"Agorius" is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders).

Undescribed species have been found in Malaysia and SabahMurphy & Murphy 2000: 303] . No new species were described for about one hundred years, with two new species found in the early 2000s.

The genera "Agorius" and "Synagelides" (and perhaps "Pseudosynagelides") are sometimes separated as a genus group, called subfamily "Agoriinae" Simon, 1901 [Szűts, 2003] . Several more species have been found but not yet described [J. Proszynski: [http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/agorius/agor-rem.htm Provisional notes on genus "Agorius"] ] .

Description

Both sexes are about six to eight mm long. "Agorius" is similar to "Myrmarachne" another good ant mimic, but can be distinguished from it by having no large, forward-pointing chelicerae, and is not found on vegetation above the ground, but only in rain forest leaf litter.

"A. borneensis", "A. formicinus" and "A. semirufus" are only known from male specimens, "A. cinctus" and "A. gracilipes" only from a female [Platnick 2007] .

pecies

* "Agorius baloghi" Szűts, 2003 — New Guinea, New Britain
* "Agorius borneensis" Edmunds & Prószynski, 2001 — Borneo
* "Agorius cinctus" Simon, 1901 — Java, Lombok
* "Agorius constrictus" Simon, 1901 — Singapore
* "Agorius formicinus" Simon, 1903 — Sumatra
* "Agorius gracilipes" Thorell, 1877 — Sulawesi
* "Agorius semirufus" Simon, 1901 — Philippines

References

* (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. "Malaysian Nature Society", Kuala Lumpur.
* Szűts, T. (2003). New species of "Agorius" Thorell, 1877 (Araneae: Salticidae) from New Guinea. "Acta Zoologica Hungarica" 49(1): 61-69.] [http://www.pedozoologia.net/PDF/Szuts2003a_ACTAZOOL.pdf PDF]
* (2007): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.0. "American Museum of Natural History".

Further reading

* (2001): New species of Malaysian "Agorius" and "Sobasina" (Araneae: Salticidae). "Bull. Br. arachnol. Soc." 12: 139-143.

External links

* Salticidae.org: [http://www.salticidae.ca/salticid/diagnost/agorius/agorius.htm Diagnostic drawings and photographs]