Myrmecium (spider)

Myrmecium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Suborder:	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)

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