Ligonipes

Taxobox
name = "Ligonipes"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
familia = Salticidae
subfamilia = Myrmarachninae
tribus = Ligonipini
genus = "Ligonipes"
genus_authority = Karsch, 1878
diversity_link = List of Salticidae species#Ligonipes
diversity = 8 species
type_species = "Ligonipes illustris"
type_species_authority = Karsch, 1878
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"Ligonipes" is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). The eight 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 [Murphy & Murphy 2000: 272] .

pecies

* "Ligonipes coccineopilosus" (Simon, 1884) — Moluccas, New Guinea
* "Ligonipes flavipes" Rainbow, 1920 — Norfolk Islands
* "Ligonipes illustris" Karsch, 1878 — Queensland
* "Ligonipes lacertosus" (Thorell, 1881) — Queensland
* "Ligonipes scutellatus" (Kritscher, 1959) — New Guinea
* "Ligonipes semitectus" (Simon, 1900) — Queensland
* "Ligonipes similis" (Hasselt, 1882) — Sumatra
* "Ligonipes synageloides" (Szombathy, 1915) — New Guinea

Footnotes

References

* (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. "Malaysian Nature Society", Kuala Lumpur.
* (2007): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.0. "American Museum of Natural History".
* Find-a-Spider: " [http://www.usq.edu.au/spider/find/spiders/454.htm Ligonipes semitectus] "

Further reading

* (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